In his old age, he tries to write another bestseller as a fitting encore to his career but couldn't seem to find the inspiration for it. So the young man left home, became an artist, wrote a bestseller which became a film, then grew old. People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs." You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning. Two years later he was sent to Italy, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. He sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. Even as a child, he loved to write at the age of eleven, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland. Joseph Heller was the son of poor Jewish parents from Russia. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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