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Joseph Heller (1923–1999) was an American writer, screenwriter, novelist, and playwright. Born in New York City, he resided in Brooklyn and participated in World War II. He received education at Columbia University and St Catherine's College. His notable works include *Catch-22*, *God Knows*, *Closing Time*, and *Something Happened*. Heller wrote in the genres of satire and black comedy.
He was employed by Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pennsylvania. Heller received the Prix Médicis étranger and a Fulbright Scholarship. He died of a myocardial infarction in East Hampton.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1 May 1923
- Died
- 12 December 1999
- Works
- 77
Top works
- 第二十二条军规
- Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters
- Heroic War Stories
- good as glod
- something happened
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · New York, New York, U.S.
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
Discography
- Cherry Soda
- High at the Planetarium2020
- Fantasy Arcade2020
- In 4k2020
- Sakura Dreams2020
- Certain Shade Of Blue2020
- Ocularium2020
- Gold2020
- White2020
- Lone Wolf2020
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,946
- Total plays
- 39,140
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joseph+Heller
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 40,262x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,781x
- When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 21,500x
- CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP
· 1985 · cited 19,721x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"”
- “Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
- “It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.”
- “The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”
- “"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."”
- “Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Joseph Heller, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least twice, in 1972 and 1975.
Early life
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