“Somehow, we, on that minute parcel of seashore at the lower tip of Brooklyn. He writes in his memoirs that the social upheavals of the time-lynchings, strikes, Hoovervilles, mass poverty and unemployment-were distant from his secluded neighborhood. While his family lived only upon the meager income earned by his mother as a seamstress during the years of the Great Depression, Heller got through childhood without ever feeling the effects of extreme poverty. He lived there with his family (his mother and two siblings) throughout his childhood, in a Jewish working-class neighborhood. Heller was born in 1923 in Coney Island, a neighborhood in the southernmost part of Brooklyn, New York. Now and Then, his memoirs, was published in 1998. His other novels include Something Happened (1974), Good as Gold (1979), God Knows (1984), Picture This (1988) and Closing Time (1994). The phrase ‘catch-22' has entered American English, used to describe an absurd and no-win situation. He is best known for Catch-22, a hilarious and moving novel set in Italy during the Second World War. The renowned American author, Joseph Heller, died last month at the age of 76.
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