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Joseph Heller

1923 - 1999

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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Heller has received more than 1,453,137 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Joseph Heller is the 2,007th most popular writer (up from 2,077th in 2019), the 2,636th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,609th in 2019) and the 237th most popular American Writer.

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  • 55.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Heller ranks 2,007 out of 5,755. Before him are Walter Bagehot, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Nelson Algren, Gerald Gardner, Pierre Lemaitre, and Juhani Aho. After him are Alciphron, Gaston III, Count of Foix, Eustache Deschamps, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, and Michel de Ghelderode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Joseph Heller ranks 124. Before him are Elisabeth Becker, Bert Kaempfert, Peter Lawford, Alexander Yakovlev, Wally Schirra, and Alexandre Astruc. After him are Tito Puente, Andrés Rodríguez, Anita Björk, Álvaro Mutis, Albert Vanhoye, and Karl Vaino. Among people deceased in 1999, Joseph Heller ranks 81. Before him are Phaedon Gizikis, Shankar Dayal Sharma, Leon Štukelj, Yuri Knorozov, Kazuo Sakamaki, and Maurice Couve de Murville. After him are Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Giant Baba, Michel Petrucciani, Pierre Clémenti, Heinz G. Konsalik, and Aldo van Eyck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Heller ranks 2,636 out of 18,182. Before him are Gall (1840), Coleman Hawkins (1904), George B. McClellan (1826), Tom Savini (1946), Nelson Algren (1909), and Carmine Coppola (1910). After him are Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), Michael Walzer (1935), Everett McGill (1945), Jonathan Larson (1960), Pam Grier (1949), and Angelo Dundee (1921).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joseph Heller ranks 237. Before him are Ed McBain (1926), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Carl Sandburg (1878), Harlan Coben (1962), Michael Cunningham (1952), and Nelson Algren (1909). After him are August Derleth (1909), Annie Proulx (1935), John W. Campbell (1910), James M. Cain (1892), William Moulton Marston (1893), and Erich Segal (1937).

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