Richard Hooker

Emerging from a New Jersey upbringing and a medical education at Cornell after studying at Bowdoin College, he transformed his Korean-War surgical service into the bestselling novel MASH, published under the pen name Richard Hooker. The book inspired Robert Altman’s 1970 film, which earned five Academy Award nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay, and it later spawned the long-running televis… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources