Letter, 1994 November 15 to Jon Lewis Allen. 1994.

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Letter, 1994 November 15 to Jon Lewis Allen. 1994.

Reply to John Lewis Allen's letter regarding Allen having known a B-17 co-pilot named Lou Rabinowitz. Heller in return describes his friend Lou Berkman, the person he based the character Lou Rabinowitz (Closing Time) on. A copy of Allen's letter to Heller is included, as is a copy of Allen's letter to Matthew J. Bruccoli, donating both to the University of South Carolina's Joseph Heller Collection.

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Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008

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Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (August 21, 1931 – June 4, 2008) was an American professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He was the preeminent expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also wrote about other writers, notably Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and John O'Hara, and was editor of the Dictionary of Literary Matthew Joseph Bruccoli was born in 1931 in The Bronx, New York to Joseph Bruccoli and Mary Gervasi. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1949. He studied at Cor...

Heller, Joseph, 1940-

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Author Joseph Heller was born and raised in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, N.Y. He served in the Air Force in World War II, and was educated at NYU, Columbia, and as a Fullbright Scholar at Oxford. He worked as an English instructor at Penn State University and became a copy writer for several New York ad agencies. His first novel, the highly-regarded World War II black comedy Catch-22, became a phenomenon by anticipating key themes in the social unrest that characterized the 1960s; the s...

Allen, Jon L.

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Matthew J. Bruccoli Collection of Joseph Heller.

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