Best-selling author and screenwriter Herman Raucher, who received an Oscar nomination for his work on the coming-of-age drama `Summer of `42,` has died, as per the Hollywood Reporter. He was 95. Raucher died of natural causes on Thursday at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, according to his daughter, Jenny Raucher.

Raucher, who began his career in live television, wrote screenplays for two Anthony Newley films: Sweet November (1968), directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Sandy Dennis, and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), which also starred Joan Collins. He was inspired by Bobbie Gentry`s 1967 hit song when writing the script for Ode to Billy Joe (1976), a love drama starring Robby Benson and Glynis O`Connor and directed by Max Baer Jr.