MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Cover to paperback edition (Pocket Books, 1969) | |
| Author | Richard Hooker |
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| Language | English |
| Series | M*A*S*H |
| Genre | War, Comedy, Drama |
| Publisher | William Morrow |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 211 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-688-02061-3 |
| Followed by | M*A*S*H Goes to Maine |
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors is a 1968 novel written by Richard Hooker (the pen name of former military surgeon H. Richard Hornberger) with the assistance of writer W.C. Heinz. It is notable as the foundation of the M*A*S*H franchise, which includes a 1970 feature film and a long-running TV series (1972–1983). The novel is about a fictional U.S. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea during the Korean War.
Hooker followed the novel with two sequels. Additionally, a series of sequels, of a different and lighter tone, were credited to Hooker and William E. Butterworth, but actually written by Butterworth alone.