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Joseph Heller


Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
May 01, 1923

Died
December 12, 1999

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
William Saroyon


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Joseph Heller was the son of poor Jewish parents from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; at the age of eleven, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland. He sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. 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. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to Italy, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 864,888 ratings · 25,981 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
Catch-22
3.99 avg rating — 839,003 ratings — published 1961 — 28 editions
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Something Happened
3.54 avg rating — 8,214 ratings — published 1974 — 99 editions
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Closing Time (Catch-22, #2)
3.06 avg rating — 5,898 ratings — published 1994 — 65 editions
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God Knows
3.81 avg rating — 3,627 ratings — published 1984 — 55 editions
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Good As Gold
3.39 avg rating — 3,309 ratings — published 1979 — 83 editions
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Picture This
3.72 avg rating — 1,583 ratings — published 1988 — 38 editions
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Portrait of an Artist, As a...
3.24 avg rating — 1,367 ratings — published 2000 — 24 editions
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Catch As Catch Can: The Col...
3.55 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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No Laughing Matter
3.62 avg rating — 447 ratings — 24 editions
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Work: Vintage Minis
3.60 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller
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Polls

What book would you like to read for our March 2024 Group Read? The theme is Numbers.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Fantasy, Mystery
 
  22 votes 22.2%

 
  14 votes 14.1%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Science Fiction, Dystopia
 
  14 votes 14.1%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Classics
 
  12 votes 12.1%

11/22/63 by Stephen King
Time Travel, Historical Fiction
 
  10 votes 10.1%

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Historical Fiction
 
  8 votes 8.1%

 
  7 votes 7.1%

 
  5 votes 5.1%

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Fantasy, Science Fiction
 
  4 votes 4.0%

 
  3 votes 3.0%

99 total votes
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