Joseph Heller (Author)
Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as
a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York
University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a
Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at
Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where
he began a successful career in the advertising departments of
Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he
had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments
and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was
first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was
published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994.
He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven.
Howard Jacobson (Introducer)
Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of
non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000
for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010
he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also
shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
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