Joseph Heller Born: 1-May-1923 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY Died: 12-Dec-1999 Location of death: East Hampton, NY Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton, NY
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Catch-22 Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII, bombadier, Corsica) Father: Isaac Heller (bakery truck driver, Russian, d. 1927) Mother: Lena Wife: Shirley Held (m. 3-Sep-1945, div. 1984, one daughter, one son) Daughter: Erica Son: Theodore Wife: Valerie Humphries (nurse, m. 1987, until his death)
University: Abraham Lincoln High School (1941) University: BA, New York University (1949) University: MA, Columbia University (1949) University: Oxford University (1949-50, on a Fulbright)
McCall's Promotion Manager (1958-61) Look Advertising copywriter (1956-58) Time Advertising copywriter (1952-56) Prix Médicis étranger 1985 for God Knows Fulbright Camp: Surprise Lake Tonsillectomy Risk Factors: Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Author of books:
Catch-22 (1961, novel) Something Happened (1974, novel) Good as Gold (1979, novel) God Knows (1984, novel) No Laughing Matter (1986, memoir) Closing Time (1994, novel) Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here (1998, memoir) Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000, novel)
Wrote plays:
We Bombed in New Haven (1968)
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