JUST ONE CATCH A Biography of Joseph Heller By Tracy Daugherty Illustrated. 548 pp. St. Martin's Press. $35. YOSSARIAN SLEPT HERE When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a ''Catch-22'' By Erica Heller Illustrated. 272 pp. Simon & Schuster. $25. ''Oh God, this is a calamity for American literature,'' Kurt Vonnegut said on...
IT can be a blessing and a burden to be the daughter of a literary luminary. Milton's daughters secured a kind of immortality by transcribing their blind father's lengthy masterpiece, ''Paradise Lost'' (of which the writer and critic Samuel Johnson wrote, ''None ever wished it longer than it is''). Mary Shelley, the daughter of the political...
JUST ONE CATCH A Biography of Joseph Heller By Tracy Daugherty Illustrated. 548 pages. St. Martin's Press. $35. YOSSARIAN SLEPT HERE When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22 By Erica Heller Illustrated. 272 pages. Simon & Schuster. $25. ''Just One Catch'' is a soup-to-nuts chronicle of the life of Joseph Heller. It...
Joseph Heller (1. maj 1923 - 12. december 1999) var en amerikansk forfatter.
Han har studeret ved Columbia University. Under 2. verdenskrig var han bombepilot stationeret på Corsica. Her hentede han inspiration til sin store satiriske roman Punkt 22, der foregår ved en bombeeskadrille under anden verdenskrig.