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...
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Catch-22 (category Novels by Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It is his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published...
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Joseph Heller, transcribed also as Yosef Heller (Hebrew: יוסף הלר) (born January 6, 1937), is an Israeli historian. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew...
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1937), Israeli historian Joseph Heller (zoologist) (born 1941), Israeli zoologist Josef Heller, Czechoslovakian luger Yosef Heller, American Jewish Orthodox...
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Major's father. Notes Heller 1998, p. 347. Beidler 1996, p. 49. Potts 1995, p. 20. Beidler 1998, p. 4–5. Heller 1998, p. 345. Heller 1998, p. 349. Setzer...
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because of contradictory rules or limitations. The term was coined by Joseph Heller, who used it in his 1961 novel Catch-22. Catch-22s often result from...
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Joseph Alexander Heller (born April 10, 1941 in Sydney, Australia) is an Israeli zoologist-malacologist. Heller is an Associate Professor Emeritus at...
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of the author. Heller was also a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, stationed on an island off the coast of Italy during the war. Heller later documented...
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Look up Heller or heller in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Heller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ágnes Heller (1929–2019), Hungarian...
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ISBN 0-87805-635-1. Gelb, Barbara (March 4, 1979). "Catching Joseph Heller". New York Times. New York City. Heller, Joseph (February 2, 1998). "Chapter 1 of Now and Then"...
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God Knows (novel) (category Novels by Joseph Heller)
God Knows is a tragicomedic novel written by Joseph Heller and published in 1984. It is his fourth novel. It is narrated by the Biblical King David of...
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Closing Time (novel) (category Novels by Joseph Heller)
Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to his popular 1961 novel Catch-22. It is his sixth novel. It takes place in New York...
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comedy television miniseries based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. It premiered on May 17, 2019, on Hulu in the United States. The series...
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novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set...
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Something Happened (category Novels by Joseph Heller)
by Joseph Heller". Kirkus Reviews. October 1, 1974. Retrieved July 25, 2017. "The Best Book You've Never Read: 'Something Happened' by Joseph Heller"....
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characters in the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Captain John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing...
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which was written between 1873 and 1884, but not published until 1902. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was technically first published as a three-part...
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deal with World War II, one of the most famous of which being Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Heller claimed his novel and many of the other American novels of...
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Books, 2002) p. 308. Heller (1985) p. 85 A Meeting in Beirut, Habib Canaan, Haaretz (musaf), 27 March 1970 Heller 1995, p. 91. Heller, 1995, p. 91 "Stern...
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Books. Simmons, David (2008). The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 5. ISBN 9780230612525...
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shipyard. With World War II looming, Heller enlisted in the US Army Air Corps, where he served as a bombardier. Heller describes several of his fellow soldiers...
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Picture This (novel) (category Novels by Joseph Heller)
Picture This is a 1988 novel from Joseph Heller, the satiric author of the acclaimed Catch-22. It is his fifth novel. The novel is an eclectic historical...
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Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (category Novels by Joseph Heller)
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a novel by Joseph Heller, published posthumously in 2000. It is his seventh novel. His final work, it depicts...
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"shithead") is a minor fictional character in the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, who is promoted through the ranks from Lieutenant to First Lieutenant...
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Orr is a fictional character in the classic 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Orr is a World War II bomber pilot who shares a tent with his good...
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No Laughing Matter (book) (category Books by Joseph Heller)
Laughing Matter is a 1986 book co-authored by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel. The book covers Heller's struggle with Guillain–Barré syndrome from 1981...
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known for The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, developed GBS in 1983. Joseph Heller, author, contracted GBS in 1981. This episode in his life is recounted...
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fictional character, a major antagonist in the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Aarfy is the plump navigator in Yossarian's B-25, noted for being oblivious...
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Queen’s Gambit (2020). Heller was born in Marin County, California, to Steve Heller, a chiropractor, and Annie Stiles-Heller, an artist and art teacher...
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Wilde Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings, by Joseph Heller Catch-As-Catch-Can (1927 film), an American film directed by Charles...
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