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Heller, Joseph
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Heller, Joseph (1923–99), novelist born in New York, served as a bombardier in the air force during the Second World War, an experience which resurfaced in his first novel,
Catch-22 (1961), which brought him instant fame. His second novel,
Something Happened (1974), is the domestic tragi-comedy of a middle-aged New York executive, and
Good as Gold (1979) a surreal and comic satire about Jewish New York and Washington politics. After
God Knows (1984) came
Picture This (1988) and
Closing Time (1994), a sequel to
Catch-22.
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FICTION; Joseph Heller anthology a real catch-all.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Special to the Star Tribune At 38, Joseph Heller was a doddering ancient...one memoir. "This volume is not Joseph Heller's wastebasket," assert the...hard not to feel there are two Joseph Hellers: the earnest youth pounding away...
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JOSEPH HELLER'S CONEY ISLAND
Transcript from: ABC Good Morning America Sunday; 5/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...morning, the great American author Joseph Heller. Mr. Heller's best-known work...s the one and only Coney Island. JOSEPH HELLER: Growing up in Coney Island...Island. AARON BROWN: The great Joseph Heller. There's a great universal...
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JOSEPH HELLER, 1923-1999 NOVELIST'S `CATCH-22' EPITOMIZED THE ABSURDITY OF WAR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; Joseph Heller, whose black-comic novel...McHale's Navy." Mr. Heller published four other novels...published next year. Mr. Heller leaves a wife, Valerie Humphries...life in writing Works by Joseph HellerFICTION "Catch-22...
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JOSEPH HELLER, 'CATCH-22' AUTHOR DEAD
News Wire article from: United Press International; 12/13/1999; 700+ words
; United Press International 12-13-1999 Joseph Heller, 'Catch-22' author dead NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) _ Joseph Heller, author of the novel ``Catch- 22'' died of a heart...
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Joseph Heller, 'Catch-22' author dead.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 12/14/1999; 700+ words
; NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) Joseph Heller, author of the novel ``Catch...became a best-seller, came out of Heller's experiences as a bombardier during...s New World Dictionary, citing Heller's novel, defined Catch- 22 as...
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Joseph Heller, author, coiner of `Catch-22,' dead at 76.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; Joseph Heller, one of this century's most important...satiric novel. But ``Catch-22,'' Mr. Heller's acknowledged World War II classic published...and, in its way, forever overshadowed Heller's brilliance as a novelist. Most of...
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Matthew J. Bruccoli & Park Bucker. Joseph Heller: a Descriptive Bibliography.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...descriptive bibliography of the works of Joseph Heller. This book is volume 32 of the Pittsburgh...bibliographical materials can be found. While Heller published eleven other works besides...additional monograph, Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin...
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Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction. By DAVID M. CRAIG. Detroit, MI: Wayne...the Oxford English Dictionary, it is surprising that Joseph Heller has not received more critical attention. David M...
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Joseph Heller's pen pal // Author and crony tell two humorous views of road to recovery
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/23/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...The last time I had talked with Joseph Heller, it was the summer of 1984. His...healing laughter. The story is told in Heller's first nonfiction book, No Laughing...novelist Mario Puzo, playwright Joseph ("Fiddler on the Roof") Stein...
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Joseph Heller denies he plagiarized
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/27/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...04-27-1998 NEW YORK (AP) _ Joseph Heller and his publisher denied Monday that...personnel injuries and incidents'' in Heller's 1961 book and ``Face of a Hero...investigate, driven in part by a Heller biography last month that quotes...
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Heller, Joseph
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joseph Heller Born: May 1, 1923 Brooklyn, New York...East Hampton, New York American author Joseph Heller was a popular and respected writer...twentieth century. Childhood in Brooklyn Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York...
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Joseph Heller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joseph Heller Joseph Heller (born 1923) is a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), is considered a classic of the post-World War II era. Presenting human existence as absurd and fragmented...
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Hellerwork
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...athletic injuries. Description Origins Joseph Heller (1940 – ) developed Hellerwork...that is worked on during that session. JOSEPH HELLER (1940 – ) Born in Poland, Joseph Heller attended school in Europe until age...
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Catch-22
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...a 1961 best-selling novel by Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999), set on...establishments, and big business. Heller's satire thus targeted not just...the bureaucratic mindset. Despite Heller's difficulty in finding a publisher...
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Reasons not to Kill Yourself Even Though Life is Meaningless: The Rise of Black Humor
Book article from: American Decades
...include John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961), Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963...the situation presents a self-reversing paradox. In Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22 there are several examples...
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