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Herman Raucher (April 13, 1928 – December 28, 2023) was an American author and screenwriter [1] who penned the autobiographical screenplay and novel Summer of '42, which became one of the highest-grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s. [2]
Jan 11, 2024 · Herman Raucher, a best-selling author and the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of “Summer of ’42,” died Dec. 28 of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn. He was 95.
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Jan 9, 2024 · Herman Raucher, who turned his memories of a summer as a teenager in a Massachusetts beach town, including one of a sexual encounter with a young war widow, into the screenplay for the...
Jun 16, 2016 · Raucher’s fortnight on Nantucket 74 years ago was captured in the 1971 Oscar-winning movie Summer of ’42. Now 88, Raucher wrote the screenplay and the book—in that order— which fictionalized a true experience he had as a 14-year-old falling for an “older woman” and war bride Dorothy, in a “coming-of-age” film.
Herman Raucher, the best-selling author and screenwriter who earned an Oscar nomination for the coming-of-age classic Summer of '42 and wrote the script for the thought-provoking...
Herman Raucher was born on 13 April 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), Summer of '42 (1971) and Sweet November (2001).
Herman Raucher, who turned his memories of a summer as a teenager in a Massachusetts beach town, which included a sexual encounter with a young war widow, into the screenplay for the nostalgic 1971 film “Summer of ’42,” died on Dec. 28 in Stamford, Connecticut.
