约瑟夫·海勒是第二次世界大战后美国文坛的代表作家,他出生于纽约一个俄裔犹太家庭里,在二战中曾经参加过美国空军,对战争的残酷有特别深刻的体会。战争结束后进入纽约大学学习文学,获得学士学位,后在哥伦比亚大学取得硕士学位,先后做过教师和杂志编辑等工作,后专职从事写作。海勒一生著述不是很多,凭借着仅有的几部作品却在世界文坛上产生了非常广泛的影响,被视为美国黑色幽默派小说 Joseph Heller was a representative writer in the American literary world after the Second World War. He was born in a Russian Jewish family in New York City. He participated in the U.S. Air Force in World War II and has a particularly profound understanding of the cruelty of the war. After the war entered New York University to study literature, get a bachelor’s degree, after obtaining a master’s degree at Columbia University, has done teachers and magazine editors and other work, after full-time engaged in writing. Heller’s writings in his life are not many, with only a few works in the world literary world has had a very wide range of influence, is regarded as the American black humor fiction