LOS ANGELES, CA.- Two Joseph Heller letters reminiscing on his epic war novel “Catch-22” will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday November 8, 2011 auction commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark war book. Heller wrote to Professor James Nagel of Northeastern University on March 13, 1974 regarding “Catch-22” and his personal war experiences. Heller stated that he “felt much differently about the war than Yossarian felt and much differently than I felt when I wrote the novel.” Heller added later in the letter, “I was about thirty when I began thinking about Catch-22. These were the years of the cold war, the McCarthy period, the Eisenhower years, the Korean War, and it was a sensibility shaped by these factors that infused the book rather than my own literal experiences. The literary influences of which I was conscious from the beginning and throughout were Celine’s Jou