Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999 was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, & screenplays. His best-known construct is a 1961 novel Catch-22, the satire on war together with bureaucracy, whose denomination has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.

Later teaching career

After the publication of Catch-22, Heller resumed a part-time academic career as an adjunct professor of creative writing at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1970s, Heller taught creative writing as a distinguished professor at the City College of New York.