Family Segal was married to Karen James from 1975 until his death; they had two daughters, Miranda and Francesca Segal. Francesca, born in 1980, is a freelance journalist, literary critic, and columnist. Death Segal, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died of a heart attack on January 17, 2010, and was buried in London. In a eulogy delivered at his funeral, his daughter Francesca said, "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament 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. He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know." Books 1970: Love Story 1973: Fairy Tale 1977: Oliver's Story 1981: Man, Woman and Child 1985: The Class 1988: Doctors 1992: Acts of Faith 1995: Prizes 1997: Only Love Filmography 1968: Yellow Submarine 1970: The Games 1970: R. P. M. 1970: Love Story 1971: Jennifer on My Mind 1978: Oliver's Story 1980: A Change of Seasons 1983: Man, Woman and Child Bibliography See also Love means never having to say you're sorry References External links Official Erich Segal Website 1937 births 2010 deaths 20th-century American novelists American classical scholars American male novelists American male screenwriters American romantic fiction novelists Writers from Brooklyn Harvard College alumni Classical scholars of Yale University Classical scholars of Harvard University Classical scholars of Princeton University Jewish American novelists Best Screenplay Golden Globe winners Scholars of ancient Greek literature Scholars of Latin literature Midwood High School alumni 20th-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Massachusetts Novelists from Connecticut Screenwriters from New York (state) Screenwriters from Massachusetts Screenwriters from Connecticut 21st-century American Jews