Joseph Heller
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 6
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- May 1, 1923
- Died
- December 12, 1999
- Place of birth
- New York, New York, U.S.
Biography
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
