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    Joseph Heller
    By RICHARD SEVERO and HERBERT MITGANG
    oseph Heller, the author of "Catch," the darkly comic novel that became a universal metaphor not only for the insanity of war, but also for the madness of life itself, died Sunday night at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was

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    Joseph Heller during a interview in Chicago.

    The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Valerie, said.

    "Catch" was based on Heller's experiences as a bombardier with the 12th Air Force in the Mediterranean in World War II. The novel is about a bombardier named John Yossarian, a mock-Assyrian who believes his ambitious, mean-spirited commanding officers are more dangerous than the Germans. To avoid flying more missions, Yossarian concocts a mysterious liver ailment, sabotages his plane and tries to get himself declared insane.

    Yossarian discovers that, in the military rule book, anyone who is declared insane must be excused from flying death

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    Joseph Heller

    Catch
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    Something Happened
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    Closing Time (Catch, #2)
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    God Knows
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    Good As Gold
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    Picture This
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    Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man
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    Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings
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    No Laughing Matter
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    Work
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    Joseph Heller

    American writer (–)

    For other people named Joseph Heller, see Joseph Heller (disambiguation).

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    Born()May 1,
    New York City, U.S.
    DiedDecember 12, () (aged&#;76)
    East Hampton, New York, U.S.
    Resting placeCedar Lawn Cemetery
    East Hampton, New York, U.S.
    OccupationWriter[1]
    Alma&#;mater
    GenreSatire, black comedy
    Notable worksCatch,
    Something Happened
    SpouseShirley Held (–; divorced; 2 children)
    Valerie Humphries (–; his death)

    Joseph Heller (May 1, – December 12, ) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2]

    Early life

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    Heller was born on May 1, , in Coney Island in Brooklyn,[3][4] son of poor Jewish p