![]() ![]() In a 2000 article, Variety called it ''the first of the modern-day blockbusters,'' writing that Released to great fanfare on the book's coattails, the movie, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw, appeared at the end of 1970. It has sold tens of millions of copies and been translated into many languages. The novel spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover best-seller list. Who meet at Harvard, fall in love and, over the strenuous objections of Oliver's family, marry. It chronicled the fate of star-crossed lovers, the highborn Oliver Barrett IV and the working-class Jennifer Cavilleri, Published by Harper & Row, ''Love Story'' was the novelization of a yet-to-be-produced screenplay by Mr. Segal had been ill with Parkinson's disease for 25 years. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Francesca said on Tuesday. ![]() 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. ![]()
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