# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiester-richard-hornberger-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-16T12:18:10.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiester-richard-hornberger-jr"
name: "Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr."
slug: "hiester-richard-hornberger-jr"
description: "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 and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for the award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie M*A*S*H (1970) — and two years later, the acclaimed long running television series of the same title."
tagline: "American surgeon and novelist (1924–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Richard_Hornberger_at_the_original_Swamp.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-02-01"
deathDate: "1997-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.75
  momentum:             0.4242928452579035
  historical:           7.556882666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393645/"
    handle:    "nm0393645"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(f%C3%B6rfattare)"
    title: "Richard Hooker (författare)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد هووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker"
    title: "Richard Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(author)"
    title: "Richard Hooker (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(kirjailija)"
    title: "Richard Hooker (kirjailija)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Richard Hooker (író)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(auteur)"
    title: "Richard Hooker (auteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker_(author)"
    title: "Richard Hooker (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7326532"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9790"
    title: "Richard Hooker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump