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Herman Raucher (April 13, 1928 – December 28, 2023) was an American author and screenwriter 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.
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- New York University
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- April 13, 1928 (age 95), Brooklyn, New York, United States
Jan 9, 2024 · By Richard Sandomir. 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,...
Jan 11, 2024 · Courtesy photo. 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...
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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...
Jan 3, 2024 · January 3, 2024 2:09pm. Herman Raucher Courtesy Raucher Family. Herman Raucher, the best-selling author and screenwriter who earned an Oscar nomination for the coming-of-age classic...
Website for writer of Summer of '42, Class of '44, Sweet November, A Glimpse of Tiger, Ode to Billy Joe, There Should Have Been Castles, Maynard's House & more.
Summer of '42. 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 ...