* Marcus Aurelius Goodrich; Naval Writer, Critic

Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 93, writer and critic. He was probably best known for his 1941 novel “Delilah,” about life aboard a World War I warship. He was the first husband of actress Olivia de Havilland. She became his fifth wife in 1946 and they divorced in 1952. Goodrich ran away from home at 16 to join the Navy. He graduated from Columbia University in 1923, worked for several years for a Philadelphia advertising firm, then struck out for Hollywood, where he wrote screenplays and movie treatments. He also wrote about naval subjects for the New York Times and worked in the drama department of the New York Herald Tribune. He served as a naval officer in both world wars. After 15 years of writing and rewriting, Goodrich published “Delilah,” a book the New Yorker called “the novel of the year.” The one child of Goodrich’s marriage to De Havilland, Benjamin Goodrich, a mathematician, died in Paris last month after a long bout with Hodgkin’s disease. In Richmond, Va., on Oct. 20.