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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, May 18, 2012
...Remember Milo Minderbinder, a fictional character in Joseph Heller's famous novel, Catch-22 ? Minderbinder is a war profiteer during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers" in American literature. Minderbinder was a parody...
Atlantic Monthly, May 18, 2012
...the book at all. The alley-cat cultural force that was Sex and the Single Girl got declawed: screenwriter Joseph Heller (considerably more famous for his novel Catch-22 ) transformed Gurley Brown's provocative treatise into a conventional romantic...
Kansas City Star, May 17, 2012
...whistle. The brief exchange between naive grunts and a grizzled veteran of Tinseltown is an obvious homage to Joseph Heller. But it?s also a bold announcement that ?Catch-22? is about to be updated for a new era. In his immortal classic, Heller lampoons...
This is Somerset, May 17, 2012
...off at The Tunnel, and then a regular slot on Radio 4's Loose Ends, where I met Joseph Heller, Christopher Lee and Gary Glitter. "I did four series of The Mark Steel Solution, one for Radio 5 and the others on Radio 4, and a radio series about...
Spectator, May 15, 2012
...Waterloo as a major plot device. Not to forget Walter Scott, Stendhal, Marguerite Yourcenar, George Elliot, Amitav Ghosh, Joseph Heller, Alexander Dumas … choosing just 10 is bloody difficult. Blog Tags: Historical fiction , Lists...
Deseret Morning News, May 15, 2012
...Megan Smith, at right, chooses books at the public library in Richmond, Utah. July 2, 2008. Her brother Ryan Smith is at center left helping her out. Ravell Call, Deseret News Summary Ignore the razzing from your peers, KSL contributor Daniel Burton...
Denver Post, May 6, 2012
...refrain in this bleak novel, which belongs on that select list of good, depressingly unforgettable novels along with Joseph Heller's "Something Happened," Richard Yates' "Revolutionary Road" and Swift's own "Waterland." As in many of Swift's novels,...
Irish Times, March 2, 2012
...on Joseph Heller, Hildegard of Bingen and Lent EASILY BORED AND as famously tetchy as he was witty, Catch-22 author Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was rather philosophical though never claimed to be particularly...
Cape Cod Online, March 2, 2012
...company over trivial risks adds more heat than light to the debate and doesn't solve the mysteries. Joseph Heller was a brilliant satirist of the World War II generation who wrote "Catch-22." The title worked its way into the language as metaphor for any...
Weekly Holiday.net, March 1, 2012
...against Palestine. It is a level of manipulation and duplicity that would not be out of place in Joseph Heller’s novel of self-contradictory, circular logic, Catch 22. BBC’s future is in danger The musician and political activist Lowkey, who has made...
Weekly Holiday.net, March 1, 2012
...against Palestine. It is a level of manipulation and duplicity that would not be out of place in Joseph Heller’s novel of self-contradictory, circular logic, Catch 22. BBC’s future is in danger The musician and political activist Lowkey, who has made...
Huffington Post, March 1, 2012
...Continued from Part 1 When I knew him at Yale, Joseph Heller was 44 and a bit too fleshy. His graying curly hair was tamped down, and he had long sideburns. He looked like he'd just indulged his appetite for...
Huffington Post, March 1, 2012
...Continued from Part 1 When I knew him at Yale, Joseph Heller was 44 and a bit too fleshy. His graying curly hair was tamped down, and he had long sideburns. He looked like he'd just indulged his appetite for...
New Criterion, March 1, 2012
...that came out of World War I (Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway), World War II (Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller), and Vietnam (Michael Herr and Tim OBrien)all of it is best described as antiwar literature. In the meantime, writings and films that even hint...