Joseph Heller and Catch-22War has been around for many years; there were many famous who fought in the war. Many of them have written novels that reflect their war experiences, whether good or bad. Joseph Heller, a war veteran, who fought in World War II, wrote a novel that would go on to change his life and also went on to add a word to the dictionary. Catch-22 made Joseph Heller famous, but it made him much more famous. It was a book so large that it broke free from its author and then flattened him like a boulder. Joseph Heller wrote one of the revolutionary novels of the twentieth century. “Catch-22 not only became an international bestseller, but also revolutionized the publishing industry that produced it; the paperback edition of the novel was a success beyond all expectations and its millions of copies sold brought the novel to the general public. Catch-22 helped usher in the decade of the 1960s that changed America so much, in the process becoming one of the most beloved works of the generation that transformed the country's culture. (Peck)Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 1, 1923. He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who came to the United States. Heller was the youngest of three children; Heller spent his childhood in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, an area of ​​lower-middle-class Jewish families. Both his family and his teachers recognized Heller as a bright but bored student; he tinkered with short story writing while still in high school (End). In 1942, Heller joined the United States Air Force. “He spent his years in the Army flying sixty missions as a bomber wing in a squadron of B-25s stationed in Corsica in the Mediterranean” (End). When Heller was discharged... midway through the paper... that the usual madness associated with war is no longer reasonable in the modern era. Works Cited PageFine, Richard A. and Jim O'Loughlin. "Joseph Heller." Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1-8. Literary reference center. Network. May 23, 2014.Hasley, Louis. "Dramatic tension in Catch-22." The Midwest Quarterly 15.2 (January 1974): 190-197. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 23, 2014.Heller, Joseph and Brice Matthieussent. Capture 22. Paris: B. Grasset, 1985. Print.Muste, John M. “Joseph Heller.” Magill's Survey of American Literature, revised edition (2006): 1-5. Literary reference center. Network. May 23, 2014.Peck, David. “Just a Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller.” Magill's Literary Annual 2012 (2012): 1-3. Literary reference center. Network. May 23 2014.