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Interests => Hobbies => The Book Club => Topic started by: bijou on January 20, 2010, 03:12:56 AM

Title: Erich Segal, ‘Love Story’ Author, Dies at 72
Post by: bijou on January 20, 2010, 03:12:56 AM

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Erich Segal, a Yale classics professor turned popular writer whose first novel, “Love Story,” became a staggering commercial success if not quite a critical one when it appeared in 1970, died on Sunday at his home in London. He was 72.


The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Francesca said on Tuesday. Mr. Segal had been ill with Parkinson’s disease for 25 years. ...

link (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20segal.html)

RIP.  Love Story was a phenomenon.

Title: Re: Erich Segal, ‘Love Story’ Author, Dies at 72
Post by: Lord Undies on January 20, 2010, 05:33:43 AM

I laughed all the way through the movie.  I never tried the book.

RIP, Mr. Segal.