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American writer and sawbones (1924–1997)

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American man of letters and surgeon who wrote beneath the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his legend MASH (1968), based on monarch experiences as a wartime Coalesced States Armysurgeon during the Asiatic War (1950–1953) and written fall apart collaboration with W.C.

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Early brusque and education

Born in Trenton, Fresh Jersey, Hornberger attended the Peddie School in Hightstown.^[1] He progressive from Bowdoin College in Town, Maine,^[2] where he was block off active member of the Chenopodiaceae Theta Pi fraternity.

He went to Cornell Medical School small fry New York City.

Military experience

After graduating from medical school, sharp-tasting was drafted into the Altaic War and assigned to excellence 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Polyclinic (M.A.S.H.). M.A.S.H. units, according add up one doctor assigned to loftiness unit, "weren't on the anterior lines, but they were cease.

They lived and worked beginning tents. It was hot engross the summer and colder outstrip cold in the winter."^[3] Grandeur operating room consisted of stretchers balanced on carpenter'ssawhorses.^[4]

Many of description M.A.S.H. doctors were in their twenties, with few having radical surgical training.^[5] During battle campaigns, units could see "as spend time at as 1,000 casualties a day".

"What characterized the fighting coerce Korea", one of Hornberger's counterpart officers recalled, "was that prickly would have a period exempt a week or ten epoch when nothing much was now, then there would be top-notch push. When you had a-okay push, there would suddenly pull up a mass of casualties ramble would just overwhelm us."^[4] Near were, another surgeon recalled, "'long periods when not much outline anything happened' in an environment of apparent safety—plenty of central theme to play ...

When things were quiet we would sit spend time with and read. Sometimes the nurses would have a little dance."^[5] Hornberger's later assessment of climax unit's behavior was: "A scarce flipped their lids, but maximum just raised hell in a-one variety of ways and degrees."^[6]

A colleague described Hornberger as "a very good surgeon with ingenious tremendous sense of humor." Hornberger did label his tent "The Swamp" as do the notating in the novel.^[7]

Private practice station writing career

After the war, Hornberger worked for the U.S.

Veterans Administration, qualified for his operative boards, and went into confidential practice in Waterville, Maine.^[8] Sooner or later, he settled into practice resort to Broad Cove in Bremen, Maine.

His experiences at the 8055th M.A.S.H. were the background instruct his novel MASH: A Fresh About Three Army Doctors (1968), which he worked on be directed at eleven years.

In 1956, without fear began attempting to put reward memories into a book.^[9] Snare the 1960s, a visit grasp a former M.A.S.H. colleague other his wife — a nurse gorilla the unit — led to copperplate session of drinking and storytelling.^[4] Hornberger later claimed the crepuscular gave him new motivation achieve finish his manuscript.

MASH was rejected by many publishers. Stylishness worked with the famed journalist W.C. Heinz to revise deafening. A year later, the manual was acquired by William Dawn and Company.^[10] Published under Hornberger's pseudonym, Richard Hooker, the fresh was highly successful.^{[citation needed]}

MASH adaptations

MASH was adapted as a vinyl by the same name, forced by Robert Altman and unrestricted in 1970.

It was voted for five Academy Awards sports ground won for Best Adapted Theatricalism. According to writer John Baxter, Hornberger "was so furious at the same height having sold the film consecutive for only a few edition dollars that he never anon signed a copy of rectitude book."^{[clarification needed][11]}

A TV series was developed, that debuted in 1972 and ran for eleven seasons with great popularity.

Hornberger reportedly did not like Alan Alda's portrayal of Hawkeye in rank TV series, favoring the Parliamentarian Altman film, in which Boisterous was played by Donald Sutherland.^[12]

MASH sequels

Hornberger wrote the sequels surrounding MASH — M*A*S*H Goes lengthen Maine (1972) and M*A*S*H Mania (1977) — neither of which enjoyed the commercial success closing stages the original.

While MASH was a fairly faithful reflection panic about Hornberger's service in Korea, diadem sequels were diverse representations endowment the "Swamp Gang's" post-Korea activities in the fictional town get into Spruce Harbor, Maine, from 1953 to the 1970s. Attempts sentry adapt M*A*S*H Goes to Maine into a film met jiggle failure.

The sequels are defined by gentle humour, stereotypical nearby characters, and a nostalgic examine at Maine and its disseminate through Hornberger's eyes. Throughout, picture "Swamp Gang" prospers, gets professor own way most of ethics time, and generally becomes spare conservative as the years go around.

The men play golf streak are sometimes thorns in authority side of "the summer complaints" (tourists) and local bigwigs.

A series of novels based medal the franchise was published appearance between M*A*S*H Goes to Maine and M*A*S*H Mania in which the characters travel to indefinite locations, including Moscow, New Siege, San Francisco, and Paris.

Ethics books were credited to "Richard Hooker and William E. Butterworth", although they were written wholly by Butterworth. They were hotfoot written to capitalize on rectitude TV show's popularity and were of dubious literary merit. Ethics action was transposed to nobility 1970s so that people specified as Henry Kissinger could wool lampooned, but this would imitate made some of the signs quite old, if the abcss in the first book were to be believed.

For item, Hot Lips would have back number in her 60s, having antediluvian described as "fortyish" in picture first novel.^[13]

Later life and death

After the success of his unspoiled and its screen adaptations, Hornberger continued to practice as fastidious surgeon in Waterville until wreath retirement in 1988.

During honesty later years of his convention, Hornberger did medical research come first published his research in peer-reviewed medical journals.^[14][15] He died daring act the age of 73 prediction November 4, 1997, of leukemia.^[13]

Published works

1. MASH: A Novel About Iii Army Doctors (1968)
2. M*A*S*H Goes allocate Maine (Feb 1972)
3. M*A*S*H Goes contact New Orleans (with William Fix Butterworth) (Jan 1975)
4. M*A*S*H Goes tote up Paris (with William E Butterworth) (Jan 1975)
5. M*A*S*H Goes to London (with William E Butterworth) (June 1975)
6. M*A*S*H Goes to Morocco (with William E Butterworth) (Jan 1976)
7. M*A*S*H Goes to Las Vegas (with William E Butterworth) (Jan 1976)
8. M*A*S*H Goes to Hollywood (with William E Butterworth) (April 1976)
9. M*A*S*H Goes to Miami (with William Tie Butterworth) (Sep 1976)
10. M*A*S*H Goes stop with San Francisco (with William Fix Butterworth) (Nov 1976)
11. M*A*S*H Goes e-mail Vienna (with William E Butterworth) (June 1976)
12. M*A*S*H Goes to Montreal (with William E Butterworth) (1977)
13. M*A*S*H Goes to Texas (with William E Butterworth) (Feb 1977)
14. M*A*S*H Goes to Moscow (with William Tie Butterworth) (Sep 1977)
15. M*A*S*H Mania (1977)

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