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Joseph Heller (1923-1999), American author. Heller joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and served as bombardier, an experience that inspired his most famous work, Catch-22. After the war, Heller attended University of South Carolina, Columbia, and Oxford, majoring in English. One day in 1953, in a moment of brilliant insight, he thought of the opening lines “It was love at first sight. The first time he saw the chaplain, [Someone] fell madly in love with him,” and Catch-22(originally dubbed Catch-18) was born. Eight years later, the first edition was published, the “someone” having transformed into the peculiar bombardier Captain Yossarian, and Heller’s literary fame was cemented.
Sorry for the grainy phone-picture quality, but this highly crushable picture of a young Heller from the 50th Anniversary Edition of Catch-22 could not be missed:
PS If any of you history crushers also happen to be crushing on the lovely Yossarian, might I recommend this blog?
At first glance, I totally thought this was Paul Newman. Not fair for someone to be so talented and so good-looking.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyaxdroHdc1qeu6ilo1_250.jpg)
Joseph Heller (1923-1999), American author. Heller joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and served as bombardier, an experience that inspired his most famous work, Catch-22. After the war, Heller attended University of South Carolina, Columbia, and Oxford, majoring in English. One day in 1953, in a moment of brilliant insight, he thought of the opening lines “It was love at first sight. The first time he saw the chaplain, [Someone] fell madly in love with him,” and Catch-22(originally dubbed Catch-18) was born. Eight years later, the first edition was published, the “someone” having transformed into the peculiar bombardier Captain Yossarian, and Heller’s literary fame was cemented.
Sorry for the grainy phone-picture quality, but this highly crushable picture of a young Heller from the 50th Anniversary Edition of Catch-22 could not be missed:
PS If any of you history crushers also happen to be crushing on the lovely Yossarian, might I recommend this blog?
At first glance, I totally thought this was Paul Newman. Not fair for someone to be so talented and so good-looking.
