Herman Raucher | |
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| Born | April 13, 1928 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 28, 2023 (aged 95) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Genre | Fiction, film, theatre |
| Spouse |
Mary Martinet
(m. 1960; died 2002) |
| Website | |
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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] Raucher began his writing career during the Golden Age of Television, when he moonlighted as a scriptwriter while working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He effectively retired from writing in the 1980s after a number of projects failed to come to fruition, though his books remain in print and a remake of one of his films, Sweet November, was produced in 2001.