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Joseph Heller

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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. [1]

86 relations: Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn), Alan Arkin, Alfred A. Knopf, American Jews, Baby boomers, Bachelor of Arts, Black comedy, Bombardier (aircrew), Brooklyn, Casino Royale (1967 film), Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings, Catch-22, Catch-22 (film), Catch-22 (play), Chicago Sun-Times, City College of New York, Clevinger's Trial, Closing Time (novel), Columbia University, Coney Island, Dirty Dingus Magee, Dustin Hoffman, East Hampton (town), New York, Face of a Hero, Fulbright Program, G.I. Bill, George Mandel, God Knows (novel), Good as Gold (novel), Guillain–Barré syndrome, Helen Gurley Brown, Italian Campaign (World War II), Jason Robards, Jon Voight, Kurt Vonnegut, Leon Uris, Mario Puzo, Mary Higgins Clark, Master of Arts, McHale's Navy, Mel Brooks, Miami Book Fair International, Mike Nichols, Mila 18, Milk run, Modern Library, New York Daily News, New York University, No Laughing Matter (book), North American B-25 Mitchell, ..., Novelist, Novella, Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here, Orson Welles, Pennsylvania State University, Picture This (novel), Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, Radio National, Ramona Koval, Sex and the Single Girl, Sex and the Single Girl (film), Simon & Schuster, Something Happened, Speed Vogel, St Catherine's College, Oxford, Stacy Keach, The Atlantic, The Book Show, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Sunday Times, The Washington Post, Time Inc., Twelfth Air Force, United States Air Force Academy, United States Army Air Corps, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Vietnam War, We Bombed in New Haven, World War II, Yale School of Drama, Yale University, Yossarian, 340th Flying Training Group, 488th Bombardment Squadron. Expand index (36 more) »

Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn)

Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, in Brooklyn, New York, USA, under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Education.

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Alan Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.

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Baby boomers

Baby Boomers (also known as Boomers) are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. There are varying timelines defining the start and the end of this cohort; demographers and researchers typically use birth years starting from the early- to mid-1940s and ending anywhere from 1960 to 1964.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bombardier (aircrew)

A bombardier or bomb aimer is the crew member of a bomber aircraft responsible for the targeting of aerial bombs.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Casino Royale (1967 film)

Casino Royale is a 1967 British-American spy comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast.

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Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings

Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings is a 2003 collection of writings by Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22.

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Catch-22

Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller.

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Catch-22 (film)

Catch-22 is a 1970 American black comedy war film adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller.

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Catch-22 (play)

Catch-22 is a satirical play by the American author Joseph Heller, first produced in 1971 and based on his novel of the same name.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.

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Clevinger's Trial

Clevinger's Trial is a 1973 short dark comedy play in one act by Joseph Heller.

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Closing Time (novel)

Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to the popular Catch-22.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Coney Island

Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

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Dirty Dingus Magee

Dirty Dingus Magee is a 1970 American Comedy & anti-western film starring Frank Sinatra as the title outlaw and George Kennedy as a sheriff out to capture him.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director, with a career in film, television, and theater since 1960.

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East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.

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Face of a Hero

Face of a Hero is a novel written by American writer Louis Falstein and published in 1950.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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George Mandel

George Mandel (born February 11, 1920) is an American author and early writer of the Beat Generation.

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God Knows (novel)

God Knows is a tragicomedic novel written by Joseph Heller and published in 1984.

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Good as Gold (novel)

Good as Gold is a 1979 novel by Joseph Heller.

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Guillain–Barré syndrome

Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system.

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Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown (February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012; born Helen Marie Gurley) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman.

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Italian Campaign (World War II)

The Italian Campaign of World War II consisted of the Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.

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Jason Robards

Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Jon Voight

Jonathan Vincent Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.

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Leon Uris

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote two bestselling books, Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).

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Mario Puzo

Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist.

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Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney (née Higgins; born December 24, 1927), known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network.

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Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer.

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Miami Book Fair International

The Miami Book Fair is an annual literary festival event realized in Miami by Miami Dade College.

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Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian.

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Mila 18

Mila 18 is a novel by Leon Uris set in German-occupied Warsaw, Poland, before and during World War II.

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Milk run

The phrase milk run originated in World War II, when US Army Air Corps and RAF aircrews used it to describe any mission where minimal resistance from the enemy was expected.

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Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American publishing company.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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No Laughing Matter (book)

No Laughing Matter is a 1986 book co-authored by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel.

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North American B-25 Mitchell

The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American twin-engine, medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA).

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here

Now and Then is Joseph Heller's 1998 memoir.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Picture This (novel)

Picture This is a 1988 novel from Joseph Heller, the satiric author of the acclaimed Catch-22.

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Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a novel by Joseph Heller, published posthumously in 2000.

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Radio National

ABC Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide Public Service Broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval (born 1954, Melbourne) is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.

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Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl is a 1962 non-fiction book by American writer Helen Gurley Brown, written as an advice book that encouraged women to become financially independent and experience sexual relationships before or without marriage.

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Sex and the Single Girl (film)

Sex and the Single Girl is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Richard Quine and starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, and Mel Ferrer.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Something Happened

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22).

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Speed Vogel

Irving "Speed" Vogel (March 3, 1918 – April 14, 2008) was an American sculptor, painter, and co-author, along with Joseph Heller, of the best-selling - The New York Times memoir, No Laughing Matter.

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St Catherine's College, Oxford

St Catherine's College (often called Catz by college members) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Stacy Keach

Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor of stage, film, and television.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Book Show

The Book Show was an Australian ABC radio program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Twelfth Air Force

The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC).

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United States Air Force Academy

The United States Air Force Academy (also known as USAFA, the Air Force Academy, or the Academy), is a military academy for officer cadets of the United States Air Force.

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United States Army Air Corps

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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We Bombed in New Haven

We Bombed in New Haven is a 1967 play by Joseph Heller.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yale School of Drama

The Yale School of Drama (also known as YSD) is a graduate professional school of Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yossarian

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340th Flying Training Group

The 340th Flying Training Group (340 FTG) is an Air Reserve Component (ARC) of the United States Air Force.

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488th Bombardment Squadron

The 488th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller

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