Author

Books by Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) flew sixty combat missions as a bombardier in World War II before becoming an advertising copywriter in New York. Catch-22 took eight years to write and was rejected by several major publishers before Scribner's published it in 1961. It sold modestly at first and then became one of the defining novels of the Vietnam era, with sales accelerating as the war grew more controversial. Heller published five subsequent novels, including Something Happened (1974) and Good as Gold (1979), none of which approached Catch-22's reach. He remained in New York until his death.