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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American
satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of
one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon to refer to a
vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in
situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an
impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a
certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his
other works center on the lives of various members of the middle
class and remain examples of modern satire...
...Heller was born on May 1,
1923 in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish
parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child,
he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian
invasion of Finland and sent it to the New York Daily News, which
rejected it. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in
1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's
apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19,
he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the
Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as aB-25 bombardier.
His unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th
Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the
beginning ... You got the feeling that there was something glorious
about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero ...
People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane
and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions
were largely milk runs" ("Milk runs" were combat
missions, but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition
from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters)...
