Joseph HellerJoseph HellerJoseph HellerJoseph HellerJoseph Heller (May 1,1923December 12,1999) was a US satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best postWorld War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. Early years:Joseph Heller was born 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 New York Daily News , which rejected it.He wanted to become a writer, after recalling that he received a childrens version of the Iliad when he was ten.After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmiths 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 Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. In 1945,He was married to Shirley Held and they had two children, Erica (born 1952) and Ted (born 1956).After the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and New York University.11 In 1949, he received his M.A(Master of Arts)in English from Columbia University.12 Following his graduation, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at St. Catherines College in Oxford University.After returning home, he taught composition at The Pennsylvania State University for two years. He then briefly worked for Time before taking a job as a copywriter at a small advertising agency, At home, Heller would write. He was first published in 1948, when The Atlantic ran one of his short stories.On Sunday, December 13, 1981, Heller was diagnosed with Guillain-Barr syndrome.Heller eventually made a substantial recovery. In 1984, while in the process of divorcing his wife of 35 years, he met Valerie Humphries, the nurse who had helped him to recover, and later married her.He died of a heart attack at his home in East Hampton, on Long Island, in December 1999Works Novels第22条军规（Catch-22，1961) 出了毛病又译出事了（Something Happened，1974) Short stories多多益善（Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Storiesand Other Writings，2003) Plays我们轰炸纽黑文（We Bombed in New Haven，1967) 第22条军规（Catch 22，1973) Screenplays性与单身女郎( Sex and the Single Girl，1964) 皇家赌场( Dirty Dingus Magee，1970)未搬上银幕 Autobiographies不可儿戏（No Laughing Matter，1986) 彼时此刻（Now And Then，1998)