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Joseph Heller

1923 - 1999

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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Heller is the 255th most popular writer (up from 2,219th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,780th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Heller ranks 255 out of 7,302. Before him are Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Osamu Dazai, Grazia Deledda, Henrik Pontoppidan, Dario Fo, and Johanna Spyri. After him are Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, J. K. Rowling, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Primo Levi, and Herta Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Joseph Heller ranks 11. Before him are Philip Warren Anderson, Wisława Szymborska, Idi Amin, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Heydar Aliyev, and Charlton Heston. After him are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Irma Grese, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Rocky Marciano. Among people deceased in 1999, Joseph Heller ranks 5. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Hussein of Jordan, Franjo Tuđman, and Hassan II of Morocco. After him are Fred Trump, Pete Conrad, Scatman John, John F. Kennedy Jr., Gertrude B. Elion, Mario Puzo, and Joaquín Rodrigo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Heller ranks 256 out of 20,380. Before him are Cameron Diaz (1972), Olympias (-375), Barry White (1944), Charlton Heston (1923), Eli Whitney (1765), and Sigourney Weaver (1949). After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), John Holmes (1944), Ben Affleck (1972), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Lee de Forest (1873), and Johnny Depp (1963).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joseph Heller ranks 26. Before him are John Steinbeck (1902), David Woodard (1964), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Ray Bradbury (1920), J. D. Salinger (1919), and Truman Capote (1924). After him are Dale Carnegie (1888), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Walt Whitman (1819), Paul Auster (1947), Arthur Miller (1915), and Herman Melville (1819).

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