1960's The Arts | Catch-22

Novel

By: Joseph Heller

Date: 1961

Source: Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996, 186–188, 190–192.

About the Author: Joseph Heller (1923–1999) was born in Brooklyn, New York. In the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II (1939–45), he served as a bombardier on B-25s and flew sixty missions in North Africa and Italy. In 1948 he earned a bachelor's degree from New York University and in 1949 a master's from Columbia University. He began publishing while he was a student. Heller is the author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays.

Introduction

Novels about World War II increased in popularity in the decade of the 1960s. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is frequently grouped with Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones' From Here to Eternity as important World War II novels. The latter two...