In one of this author's novels, a chaplain is arrested by the government for urinating heavy water.
This author's son Ted created a self-important literary hack named Franklin Dixon who makes a living playing online poker in the novel Pocket Kings. In one of this author's novels, a chaplain is arrested by the government for urinating heavy water. In that novel by this author, a lawyer named Noodles Cook works for the law firm of "Atwater, Fitzwater, Dishwater, Brown, Jordan, Quack & Capone," and a character throws a wedding ceremony at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. His final novel focuses on the writer Eugene Pota, who seeks to recreate the success of his first novel before he dies. Another satire by this man chronicles the history of Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. In another of his books, a character purchases all of the world's supply of Egyptian cotton and coats it in chocolate so that he can offload it at a mess hall. For 10 points, name this author of Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, Picture This, and Closing Time, who created the characters Colonel Cathcart and Yossarian.
This author's son Ted created a self-important literary hack named Franklin Dixon who makes a living playing online poker in the novel Pocket Kings.
Joseph Heller