Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928) is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the autobiographical screenplay and novel Summer of '42, which became one of the highest-grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s, respectively. He began his writing career during the Golden Age of Television, when he moonlighted as a scriptwriter while working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He effectively retired from writing in the 1980s after a number of projects failed to come to fruition, though his books remain in print and a remake of one of his films, Sweet November, was produced in 2001. In 1960, Raucher married Broadway dancer Mary Katherine Martinet, with whom he had two daughters. The two remained married until her death from cancer in 2002. Inspired by several of his friends who expressed liberal sentiments while retaining racist ideologies, Raucher wrote the script for Watermelon Man. He successfully sold the script and partnered with Melvin van Peebles on making the film, though he was displeased with van Peebles' desire to alter his script in order to make the picture a black power movie. Due to the two's tense relationship, Raucher novelized his original script, both to retain his original message and to prevent van Peebles from publishing his own version of the story. Peebles' idea to turn Watermelon Man into the first black power picture later becameSweet Sweetback's Badass Song.

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