Heller wrote in his autobiography “Then and Now” about acquiring the typewriter, which he bought at Macy’s in New York. “Catch-22” was his first novel and is often hailed as one of America’s best novels about World War II and questions of sanity, warfare and hypocrisy.
Heller died in 1999, and during the past year his widow, Valerie, added his desk and lamp to USC’s collection, Suddeth said. The display is available for students and library visitors until late December, Suddeth said. Hollings Library on the Columbia campus, where the display is located. “We acquired this with the expectation that students would type on the typewriter and experience sitting at his desk,” said Elizabeth Suddeth, director of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Ernest F. The university library has one of the largest collections of his papers, manuscripts and other memorabilia available to researchers, library officials said. COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) - Students more accustomed to computer screens than manual typewriters are getting a chance to sit at author Joseph Heller’s stained wooden desk and type on the battered Smith-Corona he used to compose his acclaimed novel “Catch-22.”Ī small exhibit at a University of South Carolina library displays the desk, typewriter and lamp used by Heller as he wrote many of his major works.
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