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Joseph Heller in 1979.

Joseph Heller Biography Catches the Man

Catch-22 made Joseph Heller famous, but it made itself a lot more famous. It was a book so big it broke free of its author, then flattened him like a boulder. His failures were to it as fertilizer.

“In general, his critical reputation declined,” writes Tracy Daugherty in Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Read More