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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22 , a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Joseph Heller (born May 1, 1923, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died December 12, 1999, East Hampton, New York) was an American writer whose novel Catch-22 (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest literature to appear after World War II.
Joseph Heller (ur. 1 maja 1923 w Nowym Jorku, zm. 12 grudnia 1999 w East Hampton) – amerykański pisarz, który zyskał sławę dzięki powieści Paragraf 22. Urodził się na Coney Island (Brooklyn w Nowym Jorku) [potrzebny przypis]. Podczas II wojny światowej służył w lotnictwie, stacjonując w Afryce i Włoszech.
14 lip 2023 · The genius of “catch-22”, a phrase invented barely 62 years ago by the late novelist and memoir writer Joseph Heller to describe an illogical and often circular situation, is that it seems to...
18 sty 2024 · Did you know that Joseph Heller began writing his famous satirical novel about war, Catch-22, while teaching English at Penn State in the 1950s?
2 sie 2011 · Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over...
Heller taught English composition under a regimen for two years at Pennsylvania State University (1950-52), before moving on to become a copywriter for the magazines Time (1952-1956) and Look (1956-1958), before becoming promotion manager for McCall's.
