- 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 to ... Learn more
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