H Richard Hornberger M.D. (1924 - 1997)

Genre: General Fiction

Richard Hornberger, who wrote a number of M*A*S*H books as Richard Hooker, received his medical degree from Cornell Medical School, specialized in surgery, and served as an Army Medical Corps surgeon with the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea; his war experiences were the basis for his very popular novel, M*A*S*H (1968), which he wrote while waiting for patients at his offices in Bremen, Maine, and which was made into a movie in 1970 (screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr.) and a long-running television series (1972-1983). He based the character of Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce on himself, although the political conservative said he said he never liked Alan Alda's portrayal of the character in the TV series. After the war, Hornberger worked briefly in a veterans' hospital before opening a surgical practice in Waterville, Maine, which he maintained until retirement in 1988. He died of leukemia in 1997.

Books include:

• M*A*S*H (1968; written with sportswriter Wilfred C. Heinz)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Maine (1971): The sequel to the original novel. The war is over and Hawkeye, Trapper, Duke, and Spearchucker head for Maine to run a wacky private clinic in Spruce Harbor with plenty of laughs.
• M*A*S*H Goes to New Orleans (1974; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Paris (1974; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to London (1975; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Morocco (1975; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Hollywood (1976; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Las Vegas (1976; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Miami (1976; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to San Francisco (1976; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Vienna (1976; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Montreal (1977; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Moscow (1977; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Goes to Texas (1977; with William E Butterworth)
• M*A*S*H Mania (1977): Alive and well in Spruce Harbor, Maine, the hometown of Hawkeye Pierce. He and his wacky pals of the M*A*S*H 4077th may be growing older, but they sure haven't grown up! Who else would connive to send a forty-year old lobsterman to medical school - on a football scholarship? Co-author William E. Butterworth is also known as W.E.B. Griffin, the military novelist.

  For more information on M*A*S*H, the phenomenon, try Andy Lawson's MASH 4077 Homepage.
  
  
  Last Update: 08/02/2007
  
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