Erich Segal, a classics professor at Yale and author of the “Love Story,” died of heart attack on Sunday at his home in London.

Segal had Parkinson’s disease, according to his daughter Francesca Segal.

“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,” his daughter said at his funeral on Tuesday.

His book, “Love Story,” was made into a movie in 1970 and had seven Oscar nominations. It won for best original score.

Segal is survived by his wife Karen James and two daughters Francesca and Miranda.

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