Love Story author Erich Segal has died from a heart attack at home in London aged¹ 72, his daughter has said.

《爱情故事》的作者埃里奇·西格尔因心脏病死于伦敦家中，享年72岁。

Erich Segal was nominated for an Oscar for his Love Story screenplay

Segal was a classics professor at Yale University when he wrote the book, which became an Oscar-winning 1970 film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

Francesca Segal said her father, who died on Sunday, had suffered from Parkinson's disease帕金森症 for many years.

New York-born Segal also wrote the screenplay编剧，剧本 for the Beatles' animated² film动画片，动画电影 Yellow Submarine.

Screenplay nomination³

At his funeral in London on Tuesday, Ms Segal said during the eulogy颂词，悼词: "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy冷酷，顽固, is a testament遗嘱，圣约 to the core of who he was, a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity固执，任性.

"He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know."

Love Story, which had the tagline品牌口号，标语 "Love means never having to say you're sorry", was nominated for seven Oscars - including Segal's screenplay - and won one for best original score.

Segal, who was an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford⁶, is survived by his wife Karen James and daughters Francesca, 29, and Miranda, 20.