Just One Catch (96 page)

Simon, Dan

Simon, Dick

Simon, Gladys

Simon, Henry

Simon, Neil

The Odd Couple

Simon, Paul

Simon & Schuster

Sinatra, Frank

Sinclair, Upton

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Singer, Israel

sitting shivah

Sixties

S. Klein's

Sloan, Tom

Sloan-Kettering

Slocum, Bob (character)

Slum Clearance Committee

Smith, Cork

Smith, Gordon

Smith, Liz

Snoqualmie Valley (Washington) School District

Snowden (character)

Snyder, Richard E.

Sobel, Dava

socialism

Socrates

“Sodom by the Sea”

Solotaroff, Ted

Something Happened
(novel)

conception and writing of

critical assessment of

early published extracts

editing and revisions

JH's assessment of

publication and sales

publicity for

reviews of

“something happened” (shout)

Sontag, Susan

Southern, Terry

South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles

Special Committee on Un-American Activities

Spillane, Mickey

Spinoza

Spitz, Bob

Spock, Benjamin

The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care

Sports Illustrated

Spy

Stafford, Jean

Stan Kenton's Orchestra

Staten Island

Steeplechase Park, Coney Island

Stein, Gertrude

Stein, Harry

Stein, Joe

Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

In Dubious Battle

The Winter of Our Discontent

Steinfels, Peter

Stern, Richard

Stevens, John Paul

Stevenson, Adlai

Stimson, Henry L.

Stohl, Phyllis

Stone, Irving,
The Agony and the Ecstasy

Stone, Robert

Story

Straitfeld, David

Stretton, Trudi

Strongsville, Ohio, Board of Education

Stuart, Lyle

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Students for a Democratic Society

Styron, William

Sophie's Choice

suburbanization

success, gospel of

Sullivan, Miss

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays

Superman

Surprise Lake camp

Susann, Jacqueline

Swaim, Don

Sweeney (pet dog)

Swift, Jonathan

Swindell, Larry

Sylbert, Richard

Tallman, Frank

Tapman, Charles Allan

Tappman/Shipman (character)

Tattler
(Grossinger daily bulletin)

Taub, Jerome

Taub family

Tchaikovsky, Peter

Tebbel, John, and Mary Ellen Zuckerman,
The Magazine in America

Tehran restaurant, New York

television

Teller, Edward

Tet Offensive

Texas

Texas Jewboys

Texas Theater, San Angelo, Texas

Theatre Development Fund

Theatre of the Absurd

Thelma and Louise
(film)

“The Pulitzer Prize Plays” (M.A. thesis)

Thiesselin, Marie-Thérèse

“This Is Called ‘National Defense,'” 509n336

Thomas, Dylan

Thomas, Everett B.

Thomas, Norman

Thucydides

Tilyou, George C.

Tilyou, Kathryn

Time

Time-Life Building

Time-Life Corporation

Timely Comics

Tivoli

Togetherness

Tolkin, Mel

Tolstoy, Leo

Toman, Marshall,
Studies in Contemporary Satire

Tom Swift tales

Toobin, Jeffrey

Torah

Towbin, Bob

Toynbee, Philip

Tribble, Hy

Trieste

The Trieste Manuscripts
(film script)

Trillin, Calvin

Trilling, Diana

Trilling, Lionel

The Liberal Imagination

The Middle of the Journey

True Detective

Truffaut, François

Truman, Harry

Tucci, Maria

tummler
(social director)

Turret, Jack

Twain, Mark

21 restaurant, New York

Tydings Committee

Tynan, Kenneth

underground/alternative press

Underwood, George

United States

Constitution of

national exhaustion of

twenty-first-century absurd and terrible events

universities, writers and

University of Pennsylvania

University of South Carolina

literary symposium (1995)

University of Southern California

Updike, John

Bech books

Urban, Amanda “Binky”

Uris, Leon

Exodus

Mila 18

U.S. News & World Report

vacations, taking, the American way

Valenti, Jack

van den Boogaard, Ronald

Vandermuelen, Sergeant

Vanity Fair

vaudeville

Vaughan, Sam

V-E Day

veterans

in college

Viagra

Victorville, California

Vidal, Gore

Vietnam War

Viking

Vincent, Sally

Viola (family housekeeper)

Virginia (coworker)

Vogel, Irving “Speed”

Vogel, Julius

Vogue

Voltaire

Vonnegut, Kurt

Cat's Cradle

Vortrees, Bob

Wadler, Joyce

Wagner, Richard

Wagner, Robert F.

Wakefield, Dan

New York in the Fifties

Waldman, Tom and Frank

Walker, Lou Ann

Walther, LuAnn

Warburg, Fredric

War Diaries (of military units)

Warhol, Andy

Warner, Time

Warner Bros.

war novels

Warshow, Robert

Washington Post

Washington Square Park

Wasserman, Harriet

Waterbury, Jean Parker

Watergate affair

Watts district, Los Angeles

Waugh, Evelyn

Wayne, John

Weatherby, W. J.

Weathermen

We Bombed in New Haven
(play)

Broadway production

rehearsals

reviews

Weidman, Jerome,
I Can Get It for You Wholesale

Weinstein, Raymond M.

Weintraub, Stanley

Welles, Orson

Wells, Mary

Wertham, Fredric,
Seduction of the Innocents

West, Jessamyn

West, Nathanael

The Day of the Locust

West 11th Street, New York, bombing

West 76th Street apartment

West End Bar, New York

“Western Craze”

Western Union

West Side, New York City

Weybright, Victor

Whitman, Walt

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Whyte, William,
The Organization Man

Wiese, Otis

Wiesel, Elie

Wieseltier, Leon

Wietrak, Bob

Wilder, Billy

Wiles, William

William Morrow

Williams, Tennessee

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, Sloan

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Wilson, Victoria

Winkler, Marvin “Beansy”

Winkler family

Wiswell, George

WNYC

Wodehouse, P. G.

Wojciechowska, Maia

Wolfe, Thomas (1920s writer)

Wolfe, Tom

Woman's Home Companion

women, seducing

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)

women's magazine fiction

Women's Studies

Wonder Wheel, Coney Island

Wood, David

Wood, Joanne

Wood, Natalie

Wood, Paul S.

Woodstock Nation

Woodward, Bob

and Carl Bernstein,
All the President's Men

Woolf, Virginia

The World Is Not Enough
(film)

World War II

end of

end stage of

generation

rationing

U.S. enters

veterans

WQXR

Wright, Richard,
Black Boy

writers, common in Long Island

Writers Guild of America

Yale Draft Refusal Committee

Yale Drama School

Yale Repertory Theatre

Yardley, Jonathan

Yates, Richard,
Revolutionary Road

Yeats, W. B.

Yellin, Pauline

Yellow Submarine

Yiddish humor

Yiddish language

Yiddish theater

YMCA, Westside, New York

Yohannan, Francis “Yo-Yo”

Yom Kippur War

Yossarian (character)

“Your Hit Parade”

Your Show of Shows

Zabar's

Ziegler, Ronald

Zionism

ALSO BY TRACY DAUGHERTY

Fiction

One Day the Wind Changed

Late in the Standoff

Axeman's Jazz

It Takes a Worried Man

The Boy Orator

The Woman in the Oil Field

What Falls Away

Desire Provoked

Nonfiction

Hiding Man

Five Shades of Shadow

JUST ONE CATCH.
Copyright © 2011 by Tracy Daugherty. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Daugherty, Tracy.

Just one catch : a biography of Joseph Heller / Tracy Daugherty.—1st ed.

        p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-312-59685-9

  1. Heller, Joseph.   2.  Novelists, American—20th century—Biography.   I.  Title.

PS3558.E476Z63 2011

813'.54—dc23

[B]

2011020749

First Edition: August 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-8784-4

First St. Martin's Press eBook Edition: August 2011