Heller, Joseph

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn 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.