Just One Catch (94 page)

(1927) tonsillectomy and abandonment in hospital

(1930) first grade

(1937) high school

(1939) messenger job

(1941) graduates from high school, looks for job

(1941) job with insurance company

(1942) laborer job at Norfolk Navy Yard

(1942) enlists in army

(1942) basic training

(1943) commissioned 2nd Lt.

(1943) trained as aviator

(1944) in transit overseas, to North Africa

(1944) arrives at Alesan Air Field, Corsica

(1944) promoted to 1st Lt.

(1944) bombing missions

(1945) shipped home

(1945) back in Coney Island

(1945) trip to Grossinger's

(1945) meets Shirley at Grossinger's

(1945) awaiting discharge in San Angelo, Texas

(1945) woos Shirley and gives her a ring

(1945) officially discharged

(1945) marries Shirley

(1945) goes to California to go to college

(1948) attends NYU

(1949) graduate studies at Columbia University

(1950) Fulbright scholarship, goes to Oxford

(1950) applies to teach at Pennsylvania State College

(1950) teaches at Pennsylvania State College

(1953) looks for job in New York

(1955) advertising and magazine jobs

(1961)
Catch-22
published

(1966) revisits Corsica and war locales

(1967) playwright-in-residence at Yale

(1967) political involvement, stumping for Eugene McCarthy

(1971) professorship at City College

(1974)
Something Happened
published

(1980) affair with a North Carolina lady

(1980) midlife crisis

(1981–82) mysterious illness of (Guillain-Barré syndrome)

(1981) divorce proceedings

(1986) Air Force Academy invitation

(1987) marries Valerie Humphries

(1995) spinal surgery

(1996) Great Book award to

(1997) speech on the Literature of Despair

(1999) cruise to Norway's Arctic region

(1999) death of

(1999) funeral and burial

affairs while married to Shirley

ancestry

appearance

books and stories read in teenage years

books read as child

childhood in Coney Island

childhood summer camps (and the unpacked suitcase)

courage to ride the Coney Island rides

did well in school

dreams recurring to

exercise regime

favorite foods

finances, after illness

first memories

friendships

as grand man of letters

“haunted imagination” of

high school clubs

interviews with

Jewishness of

lasting importance of

learns to smoke

military awards

money worries and preoccupations

musical interest

near-death experiences as child

nervousness of, as child

newspaper route as kid

not a natural flier

political leanings

a precocious reader

psychological testing of, before taking a job

psychotherapy of

reflections and reminiscences

repressed feelings of

sexual yearnings

speech habits

success and failure handled well by

teenage interest in girls

vow never to fly again, after return from combat

war-hero status

wartime experience

Heller, Joseph, family

affection among

appreciation of Shirley

foreign travels

home life

marital strife

photographs with family

relations with Erica and Ted

socializing by

stay in Hollywood

Heller, Joseph, writing career

authors who influenced

fiction-writing courses

first sentences of, as inspiration

JH's ambition and plan

literary awards

playwriting ambition

reaction to negative reviews

studios for writing

theater studies

writing method and rituals

Heller, Joseph, writings

college assignments submitted commercially

early published stories

essays in
Forbes FYI

essays in the underground press

first stories submitted and rejected

first story accepted

included in
Best American Short Stories

screenplays

script rewrites

titles given to

wartime diary keeping

Heller, Lee (Hillel Elias)

abandons idea of college, and goes to work

jobs worked at

reserved personality of

runaway to California

surrogate father to JH

wedding to Perle

Heller, Lena

death of

falls off stool and breaks hip

Sam, brother of

senile decline of

“You've got a twisted brain”

Heller, Paul

Heller, Perle

Heller, Sylvia

job hunting, and secures job at Macy's

Heller, Theodore Michael (Ted)

Funnymen

marriage and daughter of

Slab Rat

Heller, Valerie.
See
Humphries, Valerie

Heller family

confusion over Lee and Sylvia's parentry

move after death of Isaac

poverty of, and living conditions

relatives' visits

“Hello, Genoa, Hello, Genoa” (unfinished)

Hemingway, Ernest

“Cat in the Rain”

“The End of Something”

The Killers

“Soldier's Home”

Henderson's Music Hall, Coney Island

Henry, Buck

Herr, Michael

Herriot, Édouard

Hiassen, Carl

High and Low cultures

High Holidays

Hijuelos, Oscar

Hillman Comics

Hills, Rust

Hiroshima

Hispanic-Americans

Hitchens, Christopher

Hitler, Adolf

Hoberman, J.

Hoffman, Dustin

Hoffman, Joseph,
How to Make Love and Like It

Holiday

Holiday, Billie

Holland, Chase, III

Hollywood

Homer

Hook, Sidney

Hornstein, Lillian

Horovitz, Israel (playwright)

Horowitz, Israel (editor)

hot dogs, invention of

Howar, Barbara

Howard, Elizabeth Jane

Howard, Homer B.

Howe, Irving

World of Our Fathers

hucksterism

Hudes, Karen

Hughes, Emmit

Humphrey, Hubert

Humphries, Valerie

life with JH in Easthampton

marries JH

nurse to JH in his hospital stay

romantic involvement with JH

Huneker, James Gibbons

Hunter, Mr. and Mrs.

Hunter Field, Georgia

Hutton, Barbara

Huxley, Aldous

Hynes, Samuel

ice cream

“I Don't Love You Any More”

Ile Rousse, Corsica

Iliad

“I'm cold, I'm cold”

immigrants, assimilation of

The Independent

Insana, Ron

Instrument School and Post Operations arm, Goodfellow Field

intellectuals, New York

International Creative Management

Iraq

Iraq War

Irish-Americans

Isherwood, Christopher

“Is it good for the Jews?”

Israel

Italian-Americans

Italian front

Italian Pavilion

Jackson, Melanie

Jackson, Shirley

Jacquet, Lloyd

Jaeger, Roberta

Jaffe, Herb, and Associates

Jaffe, Irving

Jaffe, Leo

James, Henry

James, William

James Bond movies

Janklow, Mort

Japan

Japanese-Americans

jazz

Jean-Louis (Jack Kerouac)

Jefferson Airplane

Jen, Gish

Jesus

jewelry, purchased by returning vets

Jewish agnosticism

Jewish-American novel

Jewish Daily Forward

Bintel Brief

Jews

in advertising

ambivalence of

American experience of

in history

immigrants from Eastern Europe

of New York

in politics

prejudice against

in publishing

jive talk

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Samuel

John Steinbeck Book Fair

Jonathan Cape

Jones, Gerard,
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book

Jones, Gloria

Jones, James

From Here to Eternity

“A Temper of Steel”

Whistle

Jones, Kaylie,
Lies My Mother Never Told Me

Jordan, John

Journal-American

Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Ulysses

Joyce, Nora

JU-88 medium bombers

Judaism

nonobservance of

Judeo-Christian values

Juglair, Roger

Kafka, Franz

The Trial

Kaganoff, Penny

Kaiser, Irving

Kaiser, Mrs. Irving

Kaiser family

Kaiser's Tailor Shop, Coney Island

Kakutani, Michiko

Kallem, Herby

Kane, Gil

Kaplan, Fred,
1959: The Year Everything Changed

Kaplan, Justin

Kapp, Marty

Karl, Deborah

Karl, Dolores

Karl, Frederick

Katz, Eli

Kaufmann, George S.

Kay, Hershy

Kaye, Danny

Kazin, Alfred

Keach, Stacy

Keaton, Buster

Keaton, Diane

Keats, John

Kehau (waitress)

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert

killed

Kennedy, Ted

Kenton, Stan

Kerouac, Jack

“Jazz of the Beat Generation”

On the Road

Kerr, Deborah

Kerr, Walter

Kesey, Ken

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Key West Literary Seminars

Kilroy's restaurant, New York

King, Alan

King, Larry

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

King, Stephen

King David book.
See God Knows

Kinsey Report

Kirwin, Elizabeth

Kissinger, Henry

Kline, Franz

Klopfer, Donald

Knapp, General

Knopf, Alfred A., company

Knowles, John

Knox, Mickey

Korda, Michael

Another Life

Korean War

Kornbluth, S.

Kosinski, Jerzy

Kott, Jan

Kramer, Art

Krassner, Paul

Krause, David

Krementz, Jill

Kristol, Irving

Kroll, Jack

Kroll, Lucy

Ku Klux Klan

Kurtzman, Harvey

Lamb Chop set

Lamm, Miss

Landmarks Preservation Commission

Lapidus, Morris

Lapland,
S.S.

La Reine restaurant

La Spezia

Laughlin, James

Laundry, East Hampton

Laurents, Arthur

Lawrence, D. H.,
Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lazarus, Mell

Lea, Gilbert

Leavis, F. R.

le Carré, John

LeClair, Linda

Lee, Chang-rae

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Ngoot

Lee, Stan

the Left

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

Leibman, Ron

Leisure Time Group

Lemmon, Jack

Lennon, John

A Spaniard in the Works

shooting of

Leonard, John

LeRoy, Warner

Lester, Elenore

Levenson, Sam

Leventhal, Harold

Levin, Meyer,
Compulsion

Levittown, Long Island

Lewinsky, Monica

Lewis, Jon,
American Film: A History

Lewis, Sinclair

liberal politics

Liberty

Library of Congress

Liebling, A. J.

Life

Lincoln, Abraham

The Lincoln Log
(high school paper)

Lindbergh, Charles

Lindbergh Park, Coney Island

Lindy's restaurant

Lion's Den, New York City

Lipmann, Yom-Tov

literary agents

Little Italy, New York

Lloyd, Harold

Lobster Roll, Montauk

London, Jack

Lone Star Café

Long Island

Long Island University, Southampton Campus

Look

Lorca, Federico García

Lori (waitress)

Lorimer, George Horace

Los Angeles

“Lot's Wife”

Lower East Side

Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado

LSD

Luce, Henry

Luce organization

Luciana (girl in Rome)

Lucky Little Bell of San Michele

“Lucky Strike Hit Parade”

Lucy (pet dog)

Luftwaffe

Luna Park, Coney Island

Lustig, Arnold

Lyons, Leonard

Maas, Jane

Macdonald, Dwight

Machiavelli

Macintyre, Ben

MacLeish, Archibald

Macy's department store, Manhattan

Mad

Mademoiselle

Madison Avenue

Mad Men
(TV series)

Magazine Management Company

Magrill's Drugstore, Coney Island

Mahler, Gustav

Mailer, Adele

Mailer, Norman

Barbary Shore

The Deer Park

The Naked and the Dead

“The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster”

Major, John Campbell

Malamud, Bernard