Following his graduation from Columbia, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in St Catherine's College, Oxford before teaching composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years (1950–52). Bill, graduating from the latter institution in 1948. People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs." Īfter the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and then New York University on the G.I. You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning. His unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier.
After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. Even as a child, he loved to write as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to the New York Daily News, which rejected it. Heller was born on May 1, 1923, in Coney Island in Brooklyn, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia.
He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. Joseph Heller (– December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. Shirley Held (1945–1984 divorced 2 children)
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