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Joseph Heller

(1923 - 1999)

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn,1923. In 1961 he published the bestselling Catch-22 and went on to write the novels Something Happened, Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, and Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22). His non-fiction works include No Laughing Matter (with Speed Vogel) and Now and Then. Joseph Heller died in December, 1999.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Catch 22
1. Catch 22 (1961)
2. Closing Time (1994)

Novels

   Something Happened (1974)
   Good As Gold (1979)
   God Knows (1984)
   Poetics (1987)
   Picture This (1988)
   Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man (2000)

Collections

Catch As Catch Can (2003)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Joseph Heller

On Glorious Wings (2003)
The Best Flying Stories of the Century
edited by
Stephen Coonts

Joseph Heller recommends

India Shastra (2015)
Shashi Tharoor
"I'm enthralled by the writing of Shashi Tharoor, his remarkable erudition and insight. For me, his work has been illuminating introduction to India."

July, July (2002)
Tim O'Brien
"Tim O'Brien ranks among the best."

The Jukebox Queen of Malta (1999)
Nicholas Rinaldi
"A beguiling, romantic story in an illuminating and surprising setting."