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Line 3: − ===''Catch-22'' Controversies=== − In April 1998, Lewis Pollock wrote to ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' for clarification as to "the amazing similarity of characters, personality traits, eccentricities, physical descriptions, personnel injuries and incidents" in ''Catch-22'' and a novel published in England in 1951. The book that spawned the request was written by [[Louis Falstein]] and titled ''[[The Sky is a Lonely Place]]'' in Britain and ''[[Face of a Hero]]'' in the United States. Falstein's novel was available two years before Heller wrote the first chapter of ''Catch-22'' (1953) while he was a student at [[Oxford]]. ''The Times'' stated: "Both have central characters who are using their wits to escape the aerial carnage; both are haunted by an omnipresent injured airman, invisible inside a white body cast". Stating he had never read Falstein's novel, or heard of him,[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19980428/ai_n10413175] Heller said: "My book came out in 1961[;] I find it funny that nobody else has noticed any similarities, including Falstein himself, who died just last year"(''[[The Washington Post]]'', April 27, 1998).
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The term "Catch-22" has come to mean an unwinnable situation.
The term "Catch-22" has come to mean an unwinnable situation.
==Film Adaptations==
==Film Adaptations==