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After Heller left the military in 1945, he married Shirley Held and began his college education. He obtained a bachelor's degree in English from New York University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and attended Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar for a year before becoming an English instructor at Pennsylvania State University.
Novels 《第22条军规》（Catch-22，1961) 《出了毛病》又译《出事了》（Something Happened，1974） Short stories 《多多益善》（Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings，2003) Plays 《我们轰炸纽黑文》（We Bombed in New Haven，1967) 《第22条军规》（Catch 22，1973) Screenplays 《性与单身女郎》( Sex and the Single Girl，1964) 《皇家赌场》( Dirty Dingus Magee，1970)——未搬上银幕 Autobiographies 《不可儿戏》（No Laughing Matter，1986) 《彼时此刻》（Now And Then，1998)
After graduating high school in 1941, Heller worked briefly in an insurance office, and in 1942 he enlisted in the Army Air Corps after America entered World War II.Two years later he was sent to Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, where he flew sixty combat missions as a fighter pilot, earning an Air Medal and a Presidential Unit Citation. It is generally agreed that Heller's war years in the Mediterranean had only a minimal impact on the creation of Catch-22.
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, to first generation Russian-Jewish immigrants. His father, a bakerytruck driver, died after a surgical operation when Heller was only five years old. Many critics believe that Heller developed the dark, wisecracking humor that marked his writing style while growing up near Coney Island, a famous amusement park in Brooklyn. Heller recalled little childhood influence in the literary world except for The Illiad by Homer, an eighth-century B.C.E. poet.
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Heller died of a heart attack on December 12, 1999, at his East Hampton, New York, home. After Heller's death, Simon & Schuster published Heller's final work, A Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, a collection of memoirs and essays by one of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century.
Joseph Heller (May 1,1923–December 12,1999) was a US satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He served as an Air Force bombardier in World War II and enjoyed a long career as a writer and a teacher.
His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post– World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. A major theme throughout his writing is the conflict that occurs when individuals interact with such powerful institutions as corporations, the military, and the government.