Joseph Heller

Person · Open Library

Born

1 May 1923

Died

12 December 1999

Works

77

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Listeners

1,946

Total plays

39,140

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joseph+Heller

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 40,334x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,569x

3. Naturalistic inquiry

   · 1985 · cited 34,831x

4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

   · 2019 · cited 21,529x

5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

   · 1985 · cited 19,724x

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Quotes

• “When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"”
• “Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
• “It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.”
• “The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”
• “"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."”
• “Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Joseph

Family name

Heller

Gender

male

Citizenship

Australia

Place of birth

Sydney

Occupation

malacologist

Educated at

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Employer

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Languages spoken

Hebrew

Field of work

zoology

Image

Prof. Joseph Heller zoologist - Hebrew University Jerusalem.JPG

Number of children

2

Work location

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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