Screenwriter

Joseph Heller

Classic Era1923–1999ComedyWarWesternRomance

Comic Visionary

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The Screenplays

4 total writing credits

WRITER

Catch-22

1970

Novel

WRITER

Catch-22

1973

Novel

WRITER

Full Writing Credits

1973Catch-22Novel6.7 1970Catch-22Novel6.7 1970Dirty Dingus MageeWriter4.7 1964Sex and the Single GirlWriter6.5

About

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), 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.

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