Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' turns 50 this fall

USA Today Sunday 31st July, 2011

This October, get ready to sing "Happy 50th birthday" to Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Publishers are already marking the anniversary:•Out this week is One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller by Tracy Daugherty (St. Martin's Press, $35), the first full biography of the writer.•Due in stores later this month is Yossarian Slept Here (Simon & Schuster, $25), Erica Heller's bittersweet memoir of her father.•Released this spring: A 50th anniversary edition of Catch-22, with an introduction by Heller friend and fellow satirist Christopher Buckley (Simon & Schuster). Biographer Daugherty, who teaches at Oregon State University, calls Heller's debut novel "the bible of American black humor.

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