艾瑞克·席格尔

艾瑞克·伍尔夫·席格尔（英语：Erich Wolf Segal，1937年6月16日—2010年1月17日）是一位美国犹太人作家、编剧以及教育家，因写下《爱的故事》的剧本而闻名。

于美国纽约布鲁克林出生。

剧本

《黄色潜水艇》 (1968)

The Games (1970)

R.P.M. (1970)

《爱的故事》（Love Story） (1970)

Jennifer on My Mind (1971)

《爱的故事续集》（Oliver's Story） (1978)

《变幻季节》（A Change of Seasons） (1980)

《巴黎来的私生子》（Man, Woman and Child） (1983)

著作

The Comedy of Plautus (1968)

Love Story (1970)

Fairy Tales (1973)

Oliver's Story (1977)

Man, Woman and Child (1980)

Millar, Fergus; Erich Segal. Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Clarendon Press. 1984: 221 pages. ISBN 0-19-814858-5.

《同班同学》 (1985)

Doctors (1988)

Acts of Faith (1992)

Prizes (1995)

Only Love (1998)

The Death of Comedy (2001)

Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (2001)

Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (2002)

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its film adaptation.

Early life and education

Born and raised in a Jewish household in Brooklyn, New York, Segal was the first of three brothers. His father, Samuel Segal (1904–1961), was a prominent rabbi in the Reform Judaism movement (best known for serving as spiritual director of the now-defunct Mount Neboh Congregation at 130 West 79th Street from 1939 to 1961) who was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1928; M.A., 1929) and New York University (Ph.D. in religion on the history of Jewish day schools in New York City, 1952), while his mother was a homemaker; his grandfather was from Vilnius. His interest in writing and narrating stories developed as a child, when his father published various Judaica-oriented reference books.

Although his family had since relocated from Brooklyn to a luxury Upper West Side apartment house on West End Avenue in Manhattan, he attended Midwood High School (approximately an hour away via the New York City Subway) in the former borough, likely due to its reputation as one of the few New York City public high schools of the era that consistently served as a feeder to Ivy League and Seven Sisters undergraduate institutions under the aegis of longtime guidance counselor Elizabeth Bradshaw. During his tenure at Midwood, he suffered a serious accident while canoeing. His coach advised him to jog as a part of his rehabilitation, which ended up becoming his lifelong avocation, enjoining him to participate in the Boston Marathon more than 12 times. He attended Harvard College, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958, and then obtained his master's degree (in 1959) and a doctorate (in 1965) in comparative literature from Harvard University, after which he started teaching at Yale.

Writing career

In 1967, through connections on Broadway, Segal was given the opportunity to collaborate on the screenplay for the Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine, based on a story by Lee Minoff. He occasionally worked as an actor, having a supporting role in the French crime thriller Without Apparent Motive and a cameo appearance as a gondolier in Jennifer on My Mind, which he also wrote.

His first academic book, Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus (1968), published by the Harvard University Press, gave him considerable recognition and chronicled the great Roman comic playwright who inspired the Broadway hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962).

In the late 1960s, and early 1970s Segal collaborated on other screenplays. He wrote a romantic story about a Harvard student and a Radcliffe student but failed to sell it. Literary agent Lois Wallace at the William Morris Agency then suggested he turn the script into a novel, and the result was Love Story (1970). A New York Times No. 1 bestseller, the book became the top-selling work of fiction for 1970 in the United States, and was translated into 33 languages worldwide. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1970.

The novel proved problematic for Segal. He acknowledged that its success unleashed "egotism bordering on megalomania" and he was denied tenure at Yale. However, the tenure committee did believe that Segal should be offered a non-tenure track position of senior lecturer.