Joseph Heller letters and related material, 1969-1980.

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Joseph Heller letters and related material, 1969-1980.

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The collection consists of thirteen items by or about Heller, including: five letters to Robie Macauley, 1969-1974, about writing for Playboy, his other work (especially Something Happened), with personal news and notes; two postal cards from Heller to Stanley Weintraub, 1979-1980, about his reluctance to address an audience; clipping of a letter by Heller to Time magazine, 28 October 1974, correcting comments made in a Time review of his novel, Something Happened; clipping from Chicago Daily News, 1 May 1970, of an article by Bob Thomas about Heller's reaction to the film version of Catch-22; clipping from Esquire, Sept. 1974, of Robert Alan Aurthur's Hanging out column, including an interview with Heller and observations on his work; letter from Harry P. Clark to Stanley Weintraub, 1 May 1975, with personal news, featuring an anecdote of dinner with Heller; photocopy of a postal card from Heller to Linda Donner, 22 April 1980, answering questions about Catch-22 for her thesis; photocopy of an article in Glamour, July 1970, containing an appreciation of Catch-22 by Susan Braudy.

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Braudy, Susan

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Thomas, Bob, 1922-2014

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Robert Joseph Thomas was born January 26, 1922 in San Diego, Calif. He grew up in Los Angeles where his publicist father, George Thomas, worked for Mary Pickford and a number of movie studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount and Columbia. Thomas attended the University of California, Los Angeles (graduated 1943), where he wrote an entertainment column for the UCLA humor magazine, The Claw, which he edited. He joined The Associated Press in Los Angeles with the hope of becoming a war corre...

Clark, Harry P.

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Aurthur, Robert Alan, 1922-1978

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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...

Donner, Linda

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Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-....

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Stanley Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1929. He earned a bachelor's degree in education at the West Chester State Teacher's College in 1949. He received his master's degree from Temple University "in absentia" because he was called to duty in the conflict in Korea two months prior to graduation. He spent two years in the Eighth Army where, as a first lieutenant, for his wartime service, he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Korean Ribbon with five battle stars. Af...

Macauley, Robie.

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Robie Mayhew Macauley (1919-1995) was educated at Kenyon College, Iowa State University and the University of London. During and after World War II he served as an agent for the Counter-intelligence Corps in Europe and Japan. Some of the material for his short stories was based on his experience in intelligence work. Macauley taught at Bard College and the University of Iowa before coming to the Woman's College (UNCG) in 1950. In August 1953 he resigned from his teaching position, moving on to e...