But Erich insisted: “Trust me, they’ll laugh.” And they did. Yellow Submarine (1968) - where the imprint of the rabbi’s son was particularly evident in his mischievously inserted line: “Funny, you don’t look blue-ish”. Alongside his teaching, he had notched up several Hollywood screenwriting credits, including on the Beatles’ At Harvard, he co-authored the annual Hasty Pudding theatrical production. In his academic career, Erich taught Latin and Greek literature not only at Yale, but at Harvard and Princeton and, upon moving to London with his British wife in the 1980s, at Wolfson College, Oxford.īut he had always wanted to write. He left Harvard as class poet and “Latin salutary orator”, a twin honour equalled only by one other student, T.S. He was a classics professor at Yale University, having earned his master’s and Ph.D. When Erich wrote the book that changed his life, he was 32. But while it made him rich, the skewed fame that it brought him shouldered aside a litany of other accomplishments: as classics scholar and teacher, literary critic and sports commentator, essayist and scriptwriter, historian and practitioner of comedy. The success he earned from his first novel and its Hollywood film adaptation would be accolade enough for most authors.
The American writer Erich Segal, who died of a heart attack aged 72 on Sunday at his London home, will be best, and most misleadingly, remembered as the author of
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