5/22/2023 0 Comments Catch 22 author![]() ![]() (I refused.) Being in the dictionary, after all, is certainly a colossal little piece of real estate, it just didn't belong to me. When I refused, telling him I had not written Catch-22 so could not "sign" it, he came flying at me with a huge crumbling dictionary opened to the appropriate page, asking me, his eyes pleading, to please sign it in the margin. So essential that once, a physician just I'd seen for the first time, many years ago, asked me to autograph his copy. Fifty years however, turned out to be insufficient time for my father's daughter to have read the book that gave birth to this ubiquitous, now essential phrase so at home in our lexicon. This was the year the jaunty, crooked little red man first hopped across Dad's bright blue-and-white book jacket. ![]() Joseph Heller during a 1998 interview in Chicago. The electric toothbrush had just been invented. oseph Heller, the author of 'Catch-22,' the darkly comic 1961 novel that became a universal metaphor not only for the insanity of war, but also for the madness of life itself, died Sunday night at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. Elizabeth Taylor won an Academy Award for her role in Butterfield 8. The New York Yankees took the World Series over the Cincinnati Reds. When Catch-22 was published, JFK was president. ![]()
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