Catch-22

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22,. which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time. (the sequel to Catch-22. ), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.