Erich Segal was born in 1937, in Brooklyn, New York.
Erich completed a BA in Classics at Harvard College in 1958. He went on to do a Masters and PhD. in Comparative Literature, completing the latter in 1965. He taught at Harvard between 1959 and 1964, and then at Yale until 1973.
He has received a number of awards during his lifetime, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, the Humboldt-Stiftung (West Germany) in 1973, and the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.
He was a member of the executive committee of the National Advisory Council, Peace Corps, and was awarded a Presidential Commendation for this service. He was also a co-recipient with Mother Teresa and Sir Peter Ustinov of the first Premio San Valentin di Terni for "furthering the cause of peace, love and understanding throughout the world", in 1989.
Among his many written achievements are a number of critical essays, books and screenplays, including the Grammy nominated film The Beatles; Yellow Submarine (1968, re-released 1999), and the Golden Globe award winning film Love Story (1970). Television credits include Second Thoughts (1973) and Only Love (1998). He is also the author of a number of novels, including two best selling titles: Love Story (1970), and Doctors (1988).
Erich married Karen James in 1975 and they have two daughters.
Bibliography:
POPULAR WORKS
I NOVELS
Love Story 1970 - New York Times No. 1 Bestseller; top selling work of fiction in US, 1970; translated into over 30 languages
Fairy Tale 1973
Oliver's Story 1977 - sequel to Love Story
Man, Woman, and Child 1980
The Class 1985 - Prix Deauville, France; finalist in Premo Bancarella Selezione, Italy, 1986
Doctors 1988 - New York Times No. 1 Bestseller
Acts of Faith 1992
Prizes 1995
Only Love 1997
II SCREENPLAYS
FILM
The Beatles; Yellow Submarine (1968, re-released 1999) - Grammy nominee
The Games 1969
R.P.M* 1970
Love Story 1970 - Golden Globe Award 1970; 7 Oscar nominations 1970
Jennifer on my Mind 1971
Oliver's Story 1978 - sequel to Love Story
A Change of Seasons 1980
Man, Woman & Child 1983
TELEVISION
Second Thoughts 1973
The Golden Moment (as Douglas Wolfe) 1979
Only Love 1998
III PLAYS
Madame Mousse 1964 - American adaptation of French play by Jean-Pierre Aumont
IV MUSICALS
Voulez Vous 1960
Sing Muse 1961 - Written with Joe Raposo
I'm Solomon 1967
Tomorrow is my turn. Adaptation of Demain sera mon tour
V OTHER
The Big Fizz 1959 - Student musical at Harvard - Part of The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Harvard's annual productions. Written with Joe Raposo
Foreward to Doonesbury (Garry Trudeau) 1974
Screen treatment for Hair, the musical 1976
Dr. Fastest 1978 - Short story for Playboy magazine
Screen treatment for the novel The Gift 1985
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
I BOOKS
Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus, Harvard University Press, 1968; Harper Torchbooks, 1971.
(a) Revised and expanded edition, Oxford University Press, 1987.
(b) Excerpted in The Conflict of Generations in Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Stephen Bertman,
Amsterdam, 1974 (pp 135-43)
The Death of Comedy, Harvard University Press, 2001
II EDITIONS
Euripides: A Collection of Critical Essays with an introductory essay on Euripidean drama. Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, Oxford University Press, 1983.
Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects (with Fergus Millar), Oxford University Press, 1984.
---- 2nd Ed. Rev., 1990.
Plato's Dialogues, Bantam, (editor) 1985
Oxford Readings in Aristophanes, Oxford University Press, 1996
Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus and Terence Oxford University Press, 2001
Contributing Editor, Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism, 1974-
Advisory Board, Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage, ed. W.Morris, 1975. 2nd Ed. 1985
III MONOGRAPHS
"Scholarship on Plautus 1965-1976," Classical World Survey, Vol.74 (April-May, 1981)
IV TRANSLATIONS
The Braggart Soldier, verse translation of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus. An abridged version for actors. Samuel French, 1964
Plautus: Three Comedies, complete verse translations of "Miles Gloriosus" (revised),"Menaechmi" and "Mostellaria", with introductions and a longer prefatory essay on Roman Comedy. Harper & Row, 1969
---- Rev. Ed., Bantam, 1985
Plautus: Four Comedies, as above, with the addition of the Aulularia, to appear in Oxford World's Classics Series, 1996.
"Mostellaria", brief selection reprinted in More Roman Stories ed. Gummere, Forbes, and MacKendrick. Scott, Foreman and Co., 1972.
"Fear and Suffering in Aeschylus and Euripides," from L'Evolution du pathétique d'Eschyle à Euripide by Jacqueline de Romilly (Paris, 1961) in Oxford Readings (above II[a]).
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