joseph heller

     

When he began writing "Catch-22", he was an advertising writer for TIME magazine

Trivia about joseph heller

  • He also wrote the stage version of "Catch-22"
  • This late veteran bombardier wrote a novel about a bombardier, "Catch-22"
  • His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22"
  • "God Knows", a 1984 novel by this "Catch-22" author, is a satire narrated by King David
  • He worked as a copywriter for Time magazine &, in his spare time, wrote the novel "Catch-22"
  • "Closing Time" was his 1994 sequel to "Catch-22"
  • The "Catch" is that this satirical writer was born in Brooklyn in 1923 (not '22)
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  • Fuhgeddaboudit! This Brooklyn-born writer, Lena's boy, flew 60 combat missions as a WWII bombardier
  • In WWII he flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe