BIOGRAPHY

Keegan, Brenda M. Joseph Heller: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978, 152 p.

CRITICISM

Craig, David M. Tilting at Morality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller’s Fiction. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1997, 330 p.

Green, Daniel. “A World Worth Laughing at: Catch-22 and the Humor of Black Humor.” Studies in the Novel 27 (summer 1995): 186–96.

Hitchens, Christopher. Review of by Joseph Heller. Nation 270, no. 1 (3 January 2000): 6-8.

Kiley, Frederick T., and Walter McDonald. A Catch-22 Casebook. New York: Crowell, 1973, 403 p.

Selection of representative criticism including early reviews and analyses of form, structure, theme, and the relationship of Catch-22 to Absurdist literature.

Moore, Michael. “Pathological Communication Patterns in Heller’s Catch-22.” Etc. 52 (winter 1995–1996): 431-39.

Nagel, James. Critical Essays on Catch-22. Encino, Calif.: Dickenson Pub. Co., 1974, 179 p.

———. Critical Essays on Joseph Heller. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984, 253 p.

Anthology of criticism including essays by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Clive Barnes, and John W. Aldridge.

Pinsker, Sanford. Understanding Joseph Heller. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991, 191 p.

Podhoretz, Norman. “Looking back at Catch-22.” Commentary 109, no. 2 (February 2000): 32-7.

Sorkin, Adam. Conversations with Joseph Heller. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993, 301 p.

Woodson, Jon. A Study of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. New York: P. Lang, 2001, 165 p.

Additional information on Heller’s life and career is published in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers, Vol. 4; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 24; Authors in the News, Vol. 1; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography and Resources, Vol. 2; Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors,Vol. 5-8R, 187; Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 8, 42, 66; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 36, 63; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Popular Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 28, 227; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1980, 1999; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists, and Popular Fiction; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Novels; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 4; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vol. 1; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers; Twayne's United States Authors; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 131; and World Literature Criticism.