Joseph Heller, the author of Catch - 22, was born in 1923 near Coney Island in Brooklyn. His father drove a barker's delivery truck and was a Russian immigrant who died when Heller was five years old. Heller learned at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn and served as a registrar and a blacksmith's assistant before joining the army. At the end of World War II, he was trained in bombers and carried out 60 combat missions. In the military, he encountered an obvious paradox with military rules. If you notice that you are crazy, the pilot can stop the flight, but if the pilot asks for flight due to insanity, the army thinks he is totally wise and want to avoid the danger I will. This paradox defines his first novel, satirical work Catch - 22 (1961).
After the war he got a master's degree from Columbia University and studied a one - year Fulbright scholarship at Oxford College. In the next 10 years, he taught English at Penn State University, wrote an advertisement on Time and Look magazine, and then served as a promotion manager at McCall's. He wrote catch 22 in his spare time for six years. That book never celebrated overnight, but as the anti-war protests of the 1960s set the light, it became more and more popular. Catch 22 became the first major protest novel after World War II
Heller's late six novels including Something Happened (1974), Good as Gold (1979), God Knows (1984), Closing Time (1994) never achieved the popularity of catch 22. At the same time, in 1982, Heller 's marriage ended, and he was diagnosed as Guillain - Valley syndrome, which is potentially a deadly muscle disorder. He stayed at the hospital for a year and recovered at home. By the end of the year, he got married to a nurse
Joseph Heller died of a heart attack in December 1999. His last novel "Portrait of Artist of the Aged" was published in 2000.
Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, NY, was the first Russian Jewish immigrant. His father was a Van driver who died after surgery when Heller was only 5 years old. Many critics believe that Heller grew up near Brooklyn 's famous amusement park, Coney Island, and developed a dark, smart humor characterizing his writing style. Heller remembered the childhood impact of the literary world, except for Homer's Eliad in the 8th century BC. Poet After graduating from high school in 1941, Heller worked in an insurance office for a while and in 1942 (1939 - 45 years; France, the UK, the US, the Soviet Union and Germany, Italy and Japan) World War II I went to the United States later. A few years later he was sent to the Corsica of the Mediterranean, where he carried 60 battle missions as a fighter pilot and received the Air Medal and President Award.
Joseph Heller was born in Coney Island in 1923. He was a bomber in World War II and went to G.I's New York University. Bill later visited Colombia and Oxford based on his strengths. The following is jitter of study. Heller was afraid because he was about to write a novel. Then he tried to teach it and was bored. By the mid-1950's when he was in his thirties, Heller gave up the academic course at Madison University where he wrote a copy of Henry Luce. (Heller's second novel "Something Happened" is the source of inspiration for "crazy men.") Here, Heller learns to drink martinis. Jitter has become meaningful. "Some executives noticed that they were drunk ... and some men like Joe were promoted," Mr. Daguti told us. My boss is at him. My colleague pays tribute to him. He has a beautiful wife. Anyway, he cheated on her. Mr. Doherty wrote: "He did not become an aesthetic monk," Heller praised Dostoevsky, but he did not go home.