Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller · Arts & Literature
American novelist ('Catch-22')
1923, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 1999, East Hampton, New York, United States
United States
Joseph Heller is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — American novelist ('Catch-22')
Heller was a novelist whose 1961 masterpiece 'Catch-22,' drawn from his own service as a wartime bombardier, satirized the absurd logic of military bureaucracy and gave English a new phrase for a no-win paradox. It became one of the defining novels of the twentieth century. He was born to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn.
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American novelist ('Catch-22')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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