The idea for Catch-22 was based on Joseph Heller's personal experience in World War II.

* In Joseph Heller's book Something Happened, Bob Slocum remarks, " The Fuggers were all right as long as they stayed in Germany ; then they sent their mothers here.

Sometimes the title of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 ( from the title of Joseph Heller's novel ).

Some of the best known of the works produced included Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead ( 1948 ), Joseph Heller's Catch-22 ( 1961 ) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr .' s Slaughterhouse-Five ( 1969 ).

Joseph Heller's absurdist novel Catch-22 is set on a U. S. Army Air Corps bomber squadron base on Pianosa during World War II, but Heller conceded that he took literary license in making Pianosa big enough for a major military complex.

* Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 ( 1961 ) alludes to the poem in the chapter " Havermyer ": " the open-air movie theater in which — for the daily amusement of the dying — ignorant armies clashed by night on a collapsible screen.

Long Foundation in Joseph Heller's " Good as Gold ".

John Joseph Yossarian is a fictional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time.

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel ( published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22 ).

First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's most successful novel, Catch-22.

* Kraft ( Catch-22 ), a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

Edward J. Nately III is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.

Nately's Whore's Kid Sister is another character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.

* The piazza is featured in several scenes of director Mike Nichols ' 1970 adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22.

Major Major Major Major ( hereinafter Maj. Major for short ) is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, whose name and rank is the title of chapter 9.

Chaplain Captain Albert Taylor Tappman ( A. T. Tappman ) ( usually simply referred to as " The Chaplain ") is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.

* Milo Minderbinder, a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

The central concept of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is the irony of the now-idiomatic " catch-22 ", and the narrative is structured around a long series of similar ironies.

Perhaps demonstrated most famously and effectively in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and the work of Thomas Pynchon, the sense of paranoia, the belief that there's an ordering system behind the chaos of the world is another recurring postmodern theme.

Many of the well-known postmodern novels deal with World War II, one of the most famous of which being Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

* Major Major Major Major, character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

John Joseph Yossarian – Protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time

* November 10 – Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller.

* May 1 – Joseph Heller, American novelist ( Catch-22 ) ( d. 1999 )

* Corporal Snark, a minor character in Catch-22 ( 1961 ) by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is a satirical and historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller.

Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.

* Joseph Heller – American author and playwright ; Catch-22.

Examples in literature include Harper Lee's only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, which sold 30 million copies ; and author Joseph Heller, who wrote several novels, but is still best known for Catch-22.

* Catch-22, the 1961 novel ( and its 1970 film version ) by Joseph Heller, which consequently gave rise to the expression " catch-22 "

Catch-22 is a post-modernist satirical novel by Joseph Heller published in 1961.

Joseph Heller also references the story in his novel Catch-22, where he portrays Yossarian perching naked in a tree during, or after, Nately's burial.

* Nurse Cramer, character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

" Aravamudan himself stressed the satiric nature of the work and held that while it and Midnight's Children may appear to be more " comic epic ", " clearly those works are highly satirical " in a similar vein of postmodern satire pioneered by Joseph Heller in Catch-22.

* Alan Arkin for Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

* Dori Duz, a minor character in the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The motif of bureaucratic absurdity is further explored in 1994's Closing Time, Heller's sequel to Catch-22.

Much of Heller's prose in Catch-22 is circular and repetitive, exemplifying in its form the structure of a Catch-22.

* Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption.