Hi everyone I’m Daniel, Today i’m going to present about American author Joseph Heller.

Joseph Heller was born on May 1, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He grew up in a Jewish family during the Great Depression.

After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller joined the Twelfth Air Force. He was stationed in Corsica, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. In 1949 Heller received his M.A. from Columbia University. He was a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University in 1949-1950. Heller taught English composition

Heller wrote Catch-22 while working at a New York City marketing firm producing ad copy. The novel draws heavily on his Air Force experience and presents a war story that is at once hilarious, grotesque, cynical, and stirring. The novel generated a great deal of controversy upon its initial publication in 1961.

The most famous line from this book is
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

While Heller received critical acclaim for "Catch-22," he did not win any major literary awards during his lifetime.

My reaction to this author is, the book is very realistic because it’s based on true story.

How traumatic experience affect?

Joseph Heller was married twice and had two children. He struggled with health issues in his later years, including a battle with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

During his last years. Heller taught fiction and dramatic writing at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania during his later years. His experience as an educator allowed him to share his knowledge and passion for writing with aspiring authors.