| Joseph Heller  Born: 1-May-1923
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 12-Dec-1999
Location of death: East Hampton, NY
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Catch-22 Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII, bombadier, Corsica) Father: Isaac Heller (bakery truck driver, Russian, d. 1927)
Mother: Lena
Wife: Shirley Held (m. 3-Sep-1945, div. 1984, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Erica
Son: Theodore
Wife: Valerie Humphries (nurse, m. 1987, until his death)
University: Abraham Lincoln High School (1941)
University: BA, New York University (1949)
University: MA, Columbia University (1949)
University: Oxford University (1949-50, on a Fulbright)
McCall's Promotion Manager (1958-61)
Look Advertising copywriter (1956-58)
Time Advertising copywriter (1952-56)
Prix Médicis étranger 1985 for God Knows
Fulbright
Camp: Surprise Lake
Tonsillectomy
Risk Factors: Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Author of books:
Catch-22 (1961, novel)
Something Happened (1974, novel)
Good as Gold (1979, novel)
God Knows (1984, novel)
No Laughing Matter (1986, memoir)
Closing Time (1994, novel)
Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here (1998, memoir)
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000, novel)
Wrote plays:
We Bombed in New Haven (1968)
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