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Best-selling author and screenwriter Herman Raucher passed away at the age of 95. He received an Oscar nomination for his work on the coming-of-age drama 'Summer of '42.' According to his daughter, Jenny Raucher, her father, Herman Raucher, died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut.
Best-selling author and screenwriter Herman Raucher passed away at the age of 95. He received an Oscar nomination for his work on the coming-of-age drama ‘Summer of ’42.’ According to his daughter, Jenny Raucher, her father, Herman Raucher, died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut.
Herman started his career in live television and wrote screenplays for two Anthony Newley films: Sweet November (1968), directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Sandy Dennis, and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), which also starred Joan Collins.
When he began writing the screenplay for Max Baer Jr.’s 1976 romantic drama Ode to Billy Joe, starring Robby Benson and Glynis O’Connor, he was influenced by Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 hit song. While Summer of ’42 (1971), starring Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, and Jerry Houser, was still in postproduction, Raucher was approached to write a book to promote the Warner Bros. picture.
Before the movie opened in theaters, Raucher wrote the book in a “stream of consciousness” over the course of three or four weeks. The book quickly became a national best-seller. The events that happened to him over a summer in Nantucket when he was fourteen years old are the basis for both the book and the movie.