Joseph Heller graduated from New York University before 1950 .
On his return home he `` felt like a hero ... People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs '' ( `` Milk runs '' were combat missions , but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters ) .After the war , Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and then New York University on the G.I . Bill , graduating from the latter institution in 1948 .
Joseph Heller