M*A*S*H (novels)

M*A*S*H (novels)

The "M*A*S*H" book series comprises several novels that inspired the "M*A*S*H" series, including the movie and TV series. The first, "", was written by H. Richard Hornberger, himself a former military surgeon; under the pen name Richard Hooker, it was published in 1968. It told the story of a U.S. mobile army surgical hospital in Korea during the Korean War.

Hooker wrote the first sequel, "M*A*S*H Goes to Maine" in 1972, covering the lives of the surgeons after they returned home from the war.

After the success of the "M*A*S*H" TV series, novels credited to Hooker and William E. Butterworth appeared, beginning with "M*A*S*H Goes to Paris" in 1974. Although credited to Hooker and Butterworth, they may have been ghostwritten entirely by Butterworth.Fact|date=February 2007 At this point, the novels largely left the original characters behind to focus on extraneous characters, mostly caricatures of public figures from the 1970s: for instance, operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti is parodied in the form of a singer named "Korsky-Rimsakov", and news anchor Dan Rather becomes the egotistical "Don Rhotten". The tone of the Butterworth novels is also markedly different from Hooker's original books, being much more comical and less realistic.

After the conclusion of the "Butterworth" series with 1977's "M*A*S*H Goes to Montreal", Hooker wrote a final "M*A*S*H" novel, "M*A*S*H Mania", which jettisoned the plots of the intervening novels and picked up where "M*A*S*H Goes to Maine" left off.

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by Richard Hooker

*"" (1968)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Maine" (1972)
*"M*A*S*H Mania" (1977)

by Richard Hooker and William E. Butterworth

*"M*A*S*H Goes to Paris" (1974}
*"M*A*S*H Goes to New Orleans" (1975)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to London" (1975)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Vienna" (1976)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to San Francisco" (1976)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Morocco" (1976)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Miami" (1976)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Las Vegas" (1976)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Hollywood" (1976)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Texas" (1977)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Moscow" (1977)
*"M*A*S*H Goes to Montreal" (1977)


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