- Also attended Harvard University before teaching there. The main character in his screenplay for Love Story (1970) was loosely based on his two (subsequently famous) roommates at Harvard: the future Vice-President of the United States of America, Al Gore, and Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones.
- Taught Greek and Latin literature.
- Was commissioned by Mirisch Productions to write an adaptation of "The Blue Lagoon." When his screenplay for that project was passed over, he rewrote it as an original one, Love Story (1970).
- Attended Harvard University.
- Has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971
- Was a teacher (fellow) at Wolfson College in Oxford, England. (November 2001)
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