NEW YORK — Before Joseph Heller satirized the madness of war in "Catch-22," he told a serious tale about the tragedy of racism. "Almost Like Christmas," to appear next week in Strand Magazine, is a ...

Fifty-one years ago, nobody used the term "Catch-22" to describe a victim trapped in a contradictory, often bureaucratic, paradox. Not even Joseph Heller, who'd spent seven years writing his satirical ...

In Joseph Heller’s novel, Catch-22, Capt. John Yossarian, a World War II airman stationed near Rome, gets frustrated over the practice of the military police who cite a rule called Catch-22 whenever ...

Joseph B. Heller, 94, civic leader, industrialist, philanthropist and sculptor. Founder and president of Skil-Craft Corporation, Chicago, IL and merged his company with Western Publishing Company, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Joseph Heller is an Author with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 Forum. The year with the most videos was 1997 with two videos. Most ...

With a cast led by George Clooney and featuring a sinister turn by Hugh Laurie, Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel becomes a can’t-look-away series. It’s not often that a novel creates a term that ...

Joseph George Heller Jr. passed away peacefully at his daughter’s home on Aug. 8 2023 at the age of 88. He was born on Aug. 21, 1934 in Stittville, N.Y. He is predeceased in death by his parents, ...