Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 of 1961, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. Born in 1923 and dying in 1999, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twice, in 1972 and 1975.
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was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923
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December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd
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Genre: Satire, black comedy
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Genre: Satire, black comedy
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