"Love Story" author Erich

SEGAL

This Harvard-educated writer also penned the novel Man, Woman and Child and worked as a professor of classics before his literary fame.

This clue refers to Erich Segal, the American author best known for writing the 1970 novel Love Story, which became a major bestseller and a famous film. The answer is simply his last name, "SEGAL," making it a straightforward definition clue without any wordplay. If you recognize the book or movie, the answer should come easily.