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answers.span_text: Joseph Heller
questions: who wrote catch 22 (both names)
name: Catch-22
contexts: Catch - 22 First edition cover Author Joseph Heller Cover artist Paul Bacon Country United States Language English Genre Black comedy Absurdist fiction Satire War fiction Historical fiction Publisher Simon & Schuster Publication date 10 November 1961 Media type Print ( hardback ) Pages 453 ( 1st edition hardback ) ISBN 0 - 684 - 83339 - 5 OCLC 35231812 Dewey Decimal 813 /. 54 22 LC Class PS3558. E476 C3 2004 Followed by Closing Time ( 1994 )