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Joseph Heller

(1923 - 1999)

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn,1923. In 1961 he published the bestselling Catch-22 and went on to write the novels Something Happened, Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, and Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22). His non-fiction works include No Laughing Matter (with Speed Vogel) and Now and Then. Joseph Heller died in December, 1999.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Catch 22
1. Catch 22 (1961)
2. Closing Time (1994)

Novels

   Something Happened (1974)
   Good As Gold (1979)
   God Knows (1984)
   Poetics (1987)
   Picture This (1988)
   Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man (2000)

Collections

Catch As Catch Can (2003)

Non fiction

No Laughing Matter (1966) (with Speed Vogel)
Now and Then (1998)

Joseph Heller recommends

The Hair of Harold Roux (1974)
Thomas Williams
"A superb and engrossing achievement."

Slow Days, Fast Company (1977)
Eve Babitz
"Her words are worth a thousand moving pictures."

Hoopla (1983)
Harry Stein
"A wonderful novel about an exciting time in America when it was still possible to believe in heroes."

Due North (1992)
Mitchell Smith
"A page-turner in the best sense of the term..."

The Jukebox Queen of Malta (1999)
Nicholas Rinaldi
"A beguiling, romantic story in an illuminating and surprising setting."

July, July (2002)
Tim O'Brien
"Tim O'Brien ranks among the best."

India Shastra (2015)
Shashi Tharoor
"I'm enthralled by the writing of Shashi Tharoor, his remarkable erudition and insight. For me, his work has been illuminating introduction to India."

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