Title: No laughing matter
Description: (Auto)-biographical book (with Speed Vogel), documenting the period of illness starting with December 1981, when Heller was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome. The two friends write alternate chapters, chronicling that period and dire situation with humour. 
Heller was to recover, eventually, and re-marry with the nurse who saw him through his illness.
Subjects: American Novelists, Patients, Health, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Biography, Polyradiculitis, Authors, american, Guillain-barre syndrome, Authors, biography, Polyradiculoneuropathy, Personal narratives
Places: United States
People: Joseph Heller (1923-1999); Speed Vogel;
Time periods: 20th century