Sincerely Erich Segal 9 June 1970 Washington, D.C.” Additionally signed by actress Ali MacGraw on the front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Winnie Apt- Greetings- Thanks. Here is that interview with Erich Segal, right as the popularity of Love Story is unfolding, from August 28, 1970.Special limited edition, which was distributed to bookstores of this best-selling work, basis for the acclaimed film bearing the same name. Something he never planned on and something he certainly didn’t think would come as the result of Love Story. Twenty-one million copies later, Erich Segal became a worldwide celebrity. Critics were not kind – Yale, where he was Professor, denied him tenure and students tried to pressure the University to eject Segal from campus. In this episode of the NET series Bookbeat, host Robert Cromie asks Erich Segal about this phenomenon, how did Love Story come about – his inspirations for writing it – his models for characters and his initial reactions. Nowhere in his CV was listed anything like “popular romance writer” – but he was irrevocably linked from 1970 on. Segal, who was an English Professor, whose previous book was about Roman Comedy (Roman as in Cesar) and who, to his credit, wrote Yellow Submarine. We were so wrong.Īnd nobody was more surprised by the sudden popularity than Erich Segal. Unbearable sadness and loss – something we all thought we were too “cool” and too “detached” to relate to. So here comes this book – about young love and the fleeting nature of life and the wrenching death of one of the protagonists the one you liked from the beginning. It was just that kind of book.īut this was the Cynical 70s – people weren’t supposed to like old fashioned love stories – we were knee-deep in the Vietnam War and protesting a whole palate of injustices social, racial, sexual – the gamut. It was a full-blown, over-the-top romance novel that caught many by surprise, especially those hardened readers who found themselves weeping uncontrollably at the end. Love Story – if you were anywhere remotely near the 1970s you probably heard of the name and heard of the author Erich Segal.
Erich Segal - no one was more shocked than him.
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