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Ⅰ. Life ? Birthday: May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999 ? Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York ? Family: a Jewish family ? Education: New York University, Columbia University , Oxford ? Working Experiences: at 19, a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Force ? American?satirical?novelist,?short story?writer, and playwright. ? His best known work is?Catch-22, Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post–World War II satirists. He was married to Shirley Held from 1945–1981 and they had two children, Erica (born 1952) and Ted (born 1956). Later Teaching Career ? ?After the publication of?Catch-22, Heller resumed a part-time academic career as a teacher of creative writing at Yale University and at the University of Pennsylvania ? 1981, Heller was diagnosed with?Guillain-Barré syndrome 多发性神经炎 Later years ? ?in 1991 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the college. 1998, he released a memoir 自传 Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. ? ?He died of a?heart attack?at his home in?East Hampton in December 1999, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Ⅱ. Literary Achievements 长篇小说 　　《第22条军规》（Catch-22，1961) 　　《出了毛病》又译《出事了》（Something Happened，1974) 　　《像高尔德一样好》（Good as Gold，1979) 　　《天晓得》（God Knows，1984) 　　《如此美景》（Picture This，1988) 　　《终了时刻》( Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man，2000) 短篇小说集 　　《多多益善》（Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings，2003) 戏剧 　　《我们轰炸纽黑文》（We Bombed in New Haven，1967) 　　《第22条军规》（Catch 22，1973) 　　《克莱文杰受审》（Clevingers Trial，1973) 电影剧本 　　《性与单身女郎》( Sex and the Single Girl，1964) 　　《皇家赌场》( Dirty Dingus Magee，1970)——未搬上银幕 自传 　　《不可儿戏》（No Laughing Matter，1986) 　　《彼时此刻》（Now And Then，1998) III. Black Humor黑色幽默 A kind of humor in which disturbing or sinister (不吉祥的) subjects such as death, disease, or warfare, are treated with bitter amusement, usually in a manner calculated to offend and shock. It is strongly evident in modern American fiction from Nathanael Wes