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Herman Raucher, Screenwriter of ‘Summer of ’42’, Dies at 95
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.
Raucher was inspired by Bobbie Gentry’s popular song “Ode to Billie Joe” to write the screenplay for Max Baer Jr.’s 1976 romance film of the same name starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor. The romantic comedy stars Gary Grimes as a teenage boy summering on Nantucket who meets an older newlywed woman (Jennifer O’Neill) whose husband is fighting in World War II. Some of Raucher’s other books include “A Glimpse of Tiger,” “There Should Have Been Castles,” “Maynard’s House” and a novelization of “Ode to Billie Joe.” He also wrote the 1962 Broadway comedy “Harold.”
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