| 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)
Prix Médicis étranger 1985 for God Knows
Fulbright
McCall's Promotion Manager (1958-61)
Look Advertising copywriter (1956-58)
Time Advertising copywriter (1952-56)
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 (1988, memoir)
Closing Time (1994, novel)
Now and Then (1998, memoir)
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (2000, novel)
Wrote plays:
We Bombed in New Haven (1968)
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