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Herman Raucher. 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] Raucher began his writing career during the Golden Age of ...
Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, and Christopher Norris.Based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman "Hermie" Raucher, it follows a teenage boy who, during the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, embarks on a one-sided romance with a young woman, Dorothy, whose husband has gone off to fight ...
Jan 11, 2024 · Herman Raucher, a best-selling author and the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of "Summer of '42," died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT. He was 95.
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Jan 9, 2024 · Herman Raucher was born on April 13, 1928, in Brooklyn. His Austrian-born father, Benjamin, was a traveling salesman who had been a soldier, a boxer, a bouncer and, Mr. Raucher said in an ...
Jun 16, 2016 · Raucher wrote Summer of ’42 as a tribute to good friend Oscar Seltzer, who was killed in the Korean War in 1952. Raucher and Seltzer went to grade school together in their native Brooklyn, N.Y. In the summer of 1942, Seltzer visited Nantucket with an aunt and uncle, Raucher with his parents and sister. Seltzer was “a month older than I was ...
ISBN. 0399107770 (first hardcover ed.) Summer of '42 is a novel written by Herman Raucher, based upon his screenplay and personal experience. [1] In a 2002 TCPalm interview, Herman Raucher mentions that the 1971 film of the same title gave birth to the book Summer of '42. [1] Raucher wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film first.
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Jan 3, 2024 · Herman Raucher, whose Oscar-nominated Summer of ’42 screenplay became one of Hollywood’s best-loved coming-of-age tales, has died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT. He was 95.
