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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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Excerpt 1 from Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man
Apr 05, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Picture This
Oct 14, 2012
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Chapter 1 from Catch-22
Aug 28, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Catch As Catch Can
Jul 21, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Closing Time
Jul 20, 2012
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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
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Chapter 1 from CLOSING TIME
Jun 20, 2009

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PhillyBurbs.com, June 7, 2013
...Alda, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. Liberal writers: Stephen King, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Heller, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Jacqueline Susann, Eric Berne, Sigmund Freud, Vance...
Sabotage Times, June 6, 2013
...John Yossarian Yossarian, U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, is the best literary character ever created, and Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 is one of the two best novels ever written. Bold claims, but as certain as the sun rising in the east. ...
Huffington Post, June 6, 2013
...list of the authors likely to produce such a work (William Styron, James Jones, James Baldwin, William Burroughs, Joseph Heller, John Updike, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger and Saul Bellow) consisted of exactly zero women. Read the whole story at Salon...
Salon, June 5, 2013
...list of the authors likely to produce such a work (William Styron, James Jones, James Baldwin, William Burroughs, Joseph Heller, John Updike, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger and Saul Bellow) consisted of exactly zero women. The deliberate pursuit of the Great...
The Atlantic Wire, June 5, 2013
...GoodReads members have determined that "the most initiated but unfinished" book of all time, per current vote, is Joseph Heller's  Catch-22 . If you're interested in dabbling with the start-and-stop of a read, try that one!  Luckily, because I have...
Telegraph, May 31, 2013
...Oxfam Emerging Writers award for his 'The Yellow Birds'. It is a first edition of ‘Catch 22’ by Joseph Heller. Oxfam insists it is not a lucky donation to the charity shop they went out and bought the book. Powers will receive it on Saturday. Related...
Oxfam UK, May 30, 2013
...and is already being hailed as a modern classic. Kevin will be presented with a first edition of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel Catch 22 at a ceremony at the festival on Saturday 1 June where he will also be discussing his writing with Jenny...
Bangkok Post, June 7, 2013
...you could get away with murder, but others can't. DAVID JAMES WONG Milo Minderbinder, a character in Joseph Heller's satirical novel Catch-22, bought Egyptian cotton for 50 cents a pound and sold it on for 10 cents a pound making a tidy ''profit''. He...
Forbes.com, June 7, 2013
...NSA Director Keith Alexander, speaking at the Defcon hacker conference last summer. To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because youâre paranoid doesnât mean they arenât surveilling you. In less than 24 hours, the spectre of the National Security Agency...
Bucks County Courier Times, June 7, 2013
...Alda, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. Liberal writers: Stephen King, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Heller, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Jacqueline Susann, Eric Berne, Sigmund Freud, Vance...
PhillyBurbs.com, June 7, 2013
...Alda, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. Liberal writers: Stephen King, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Heller, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Jacqueline Susann, Eric Berne, Sigmund Freud, Vance...
Big News Network, June 7, 2013
...NSA Director Keith Alexander, speaking at the Defcon hacker conference last summer. To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't surveilling you. In less than 24 hours, the spectre of the...
Birmingham Star, June 7, 2013
...NSA Director Keith Alexander, speaking at the Defcon hacker conference last summer. To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't surveilling you. In less than 24 hours, the spectre of the...
Forbes.com, June 6, 2013
...NSA Director Keith Alexander, speaking at the Defcon hacker conference last summer. To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t surveilling you. In less than 24 hours, the spectre of the National Security...