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Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.

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Catch-22 Turns 50
Oct 11, 2011
Catch-22 is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
Catch-22 will be released on April 05, 2011 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
Catch-22 is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
Catch-22 will be released on April 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
Catch-22 is now available in eBook
Oct 26, 2010
Catch-22 will be released on October 26, 2010 in eBook
Oct 26, 2010
Closing Time will be released on October 26, 2010 in eBook
Oct 26, 2010
Closing Time is now available in eBook
Oct 26, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Catch-22
Jun 30, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from CLOSING TIME
Jun 20, 2009
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from Catch As Catch Can
Jun 19, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Catch-22
Feb 08, 2009
CLOSING TIME is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
No Laughing Matter will be released on December 15, 2004 in eBook
Dec 15, 2004
No Laughing Matter is now available in eBook
Dec 15, 2004

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Huffington Post, February 8, 2012
...of the general white-male population during those years. Another interlude: John Updike, 76 (1932-2009) Booth Tarkington, 76 (1869-1946) Joseph Heller, 76 (1923-1999) Edith Wharton, 75 (1862-1937) Mark Twain, 74 (1835-1910) I listed fewer...
Redlands Daily Facts, February 4, 2012
...Eliot," "Charles Dickens: A Life" and Victor Villasenor's "Beyond Rain of Gold" are just a few. Joseph Heller fans would enjoy "Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller" and his daughter Erica Heller's "Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was...
The Scotsman, February 3, 2012
...swashbuckling adventure with pirates and ninjas stitched into a post-apocalyptic world. It was highly acclaimed, earning comparisons to Joseph Heller, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, a kind of bastard child of Wodehouse, Conan Doyle and Dumas. His second...
X-Media Online, January 23, 2012
...1960s affluence and celebrity. X-Media Books spoke to Erica about the novel and life as the daughter of Joseph Heller: For you, how important was Catch 22 in shaping the future of your family life and the relationship you had with your father? I don’t...
St. Petersburg Times, January 21, 2012
...child of the '60s. He read them and said, 'You need to read this' and handed me Catch-22," Joseph Heller's satirical masterpiece about war and bureaucracy. "That changed my life." Dorsey says he immediately created a "life plan to become a novelist."...
New York Times, January 17, 2012
...conjuring Anne. He is an absurdist with a deep sense of gravitas. He brings to mind Woody Allen, Joseph Heller and oxymoron here a libido-free version of Philip Roth. As a man who becomes involved with a famously and totally unattainable woman, Mr....
Poten & Partners, January 15, 2012
...ranges from "Airpower for Strategic Effect" by Colin Gray to "Catch 22," a classic dark comedy by Joseph Heller. Other notable titles include "Unbroken," a true story by Laura Hillenbrand, author of "Seabiscuit," and "Freedom Flyers," the story of the...
FrogenYozurt.Com - Literature & Entertainment, October 14, 2011
...be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by...
Gee Ray Records, October 12, 2011
..."BLOG: Who made Borowitz's list?•On complaints about writers he left out: "Three names come up a lot: Joseph Heller, David Foster Wallace and John Kennedy Toole. They're all hilarious. But it was hard to take excerpts from their novels that lived up to...
FrogenYozurt.Com - Literature & Entertainment, October 11, 2011
...re-illuminating the dazzle of post-war American life. With cameos by Mario Puzo, Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and many others,  Lucky Bruce  is a moving and scandalous memoir that brushes against the brightest of American...
A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Crit, October 11, 2011
...On reading Joseph Heller's American masterpiece for the first timeJoseph Heller, author of Catch-22Erica Heller, daughter of Joseph Heller, tells The Telegraph about her experience of reading Catch-22 for the first time...
everything distils into reading, October 11, 2011
...Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Top Ten Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens. This week's Top Ten is: Top Ten Books I...
Books LIVE, October 11, 2011
...on to write a further six novels, two memoirs, several plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories, Joseph Heller never produced anything as profound as his 1961 debut. In later years, critics would remind him that he’d never written another...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, October 10, 2011
...other day and spotted it without trouble. (Not so for my recently published memoir, Yossarian Slept Here, When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22, a fact which kept me grumpy for days.) This surviving chain store, once...