Joseph Heller (1) (1923–1999)
Auteur de Catch 22
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A propos de l'auteur
American novelist and dramatist Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 1, 1923. Heller started off his writing career by publishing a series of short stories, but he is most famous for his satirical novel Catch-22. Set in the closing months of World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of a afficher plus bombardier named Yossarian who discovers the horrors of war and its aftereffects. This novel brought the phrase "catch-22," defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a situation presenting two equally undesirable alternatives," into everyday use. Heller wrote Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22, in 1994. Other novels include As Good As Gold and God Knows. He also wrote No Laughing Matter, an account of his struggles with Guillain-Barr Syndrome, a neurological disorder, in 1986. Thirty-five years after writing his first book, Heller wrote his autobiography, entitled Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. In his memoirs, Heller reminisces about what it was like growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and 1940s. On December 13, 1999, Heller died of a heart attack in his home on Long Island. His last novel, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, was published shortly after his death. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Joseph Heller
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Heller, Joseph
- Date de naissance
- 1923-05-01
- Date de décès
- 1999-12-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- East Hampton, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
East Hampton, New York, USA - Études
- University of Southern California
New York University (BA ∙ 1948)
Columbia University (MA ∙ 1949 ∙ English)
Oxford University (St. Catherine's College)
Abraham Lincoln High School - Professions
- university teacher
advertising industry
novelist
bombardier - Relations
- Heller, Ted (son)
Heller, Erica (daughter) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1977)
Pennsylvania State University
US Army Air Force (WWII) - Prix et distinctions
- Fulbright Fellowship (1949-50)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1963) - Agent
- Candida Donadio
- Courte biographie
- 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 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 49,385
- Popularité
- #315
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 623
- ISBN
- 501
- Langues
- 24
- Favoris
- 120
The fast paced wit that Heller brings keeps the story wildly entertaining throughout. This is then balanced by the thought provoking reality of the insanity the characters have been thrown into.