Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War (1950–1953) and written in collaboration with W.C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for an award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie – MAS*H (1970) — and two years later in an acclaimed long running television series (1972–1983) of the same title.
Richard Hooker
Author details
- Aliases:
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Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.
- Born:
- Feb. 1, 1924
- Died:
- Nov. 4, 1997
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Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War (1950–1953) and written in collaboration with W.C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for an award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie – MAS*H (1970) — and two years later in an acclaimed long running television series (1972–1983) of the same title.
Books by Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker, Brian Marr, Bradford Littlejohn, Bradley Belschner: Radicalism : When Reform Becomes Revolution : The Preface to Hooker's Laws (Paperback, Davenant Institute, Davenant Institute, The)
Radicalism : When Reform Becomes Revolution : The Preface to Hooker's Laws
by Richard Hooker, Brian Marr, Bradford Littlejohn, and 1 other
