question: Edward J. Nately III is a character in a Joseph Heller novel that was first published in what year? 
answer: 1961
context: Title: Milo Minderbinder
  Passage: First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a character in Joseph Heller's most successful novel, "Catch-22".  As the mess officer of Yossarian's squadron, Minderbinder is a war profiteer during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers" in American literature.  The Minderbinder character is a "bittersweet parody" of the American dream, both a "prophet of profit" and the "embodiment of evil".
  Title: Nately
  Passage: Edward J. Nately III is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel "Catch-22".
  Title: B-25 Mitchell aircraft in Catch-22
  Passage: When "Catch-22" began preliminary production, Paramount made a decision to hire the Tallmantz Aviation organization to obtain sufficient North American B-25 Mitchell (B-25) bomber aircraft to recreate a Mediterranean wartime base as depicted in the Joseph Heller novel of the same name.  Tallmantz president, Frank G. Tallman found the war-surplus aircraft.  He also gathered aircrew to fly the aircraft and ground support crew to maintain the fleet.
  Title: Chaplain Tappman
  Passage: Chaplain Captain Albert Taylor Tappman (A.T. Tappman) (usually referred to as "the Chaplain") is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22".  In earlier editions he was called Chaplain Robert Oliver Shipman, but this was changed to Albert Taylor Tappman.  Editions published in some other territories, notably Britain, have continued to use the original name.
  Title: Yossarian
  Passage: Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character, the protagonist of Joseph Heller's satirical novel "Catch-22" and its sequel "Closing Time".  In "Catch-22", Yossarian might be a 28-year-old captain in the 256th squadron of the Army Air Forces where he could serve as a B-25 bombardier stationed on the small island of Pianosa off the Italian mainland during World War II.  Yossarian's exploits are based on the experiences of the author: Heller was also a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, stationed on an island off the coast of Italy during World War II.
  Title: Major Major Major Major
  Passage: Major Major Major Major is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22", whose name and rank is the title of chapter 9.  Philip D. Beidler comments that "one of the novel's great absurd jokes is the character's bewildering resemblance to Henry Fonda".
  Title: Something Happened
  Passage: Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after "Catch-22").  Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.
  Title: Orr (Catch-22)
  Passage: Orr is a fictional character in the classic novel "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller.  Orr is a World War II bomber pilot who shares a tent with his good friend, the protagonist of the novel, Yossarian.  Described as "a warm-hearted, simple-minded gnome," Orr is generally considered crazy.  His most notable feature is repeatedly being shot down over water, but, until his final flight, always managing to survive along with his entire crew.  On his final flight, perhaps two-thirds of the way through the novel, he is again shot down into the Mediterranean, and is lost at sea.  Only in the last ten pages of the novel does Heller reveal that Orr's crashes were part of an elaborate (and successful) plot to escape the war.
  Title: Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
  Passage: Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a novel by Joseph Heller.  His final work, it depicts an elderly author as he tries to write a novel that is as successful as his earlier work.  The novel was published posthumously in 2000.  The concept of the novel mirrors that of the life of the author himself in that none of Heller's books sold nearly as well as "Catch-22".
  Title: Catch-22
  Passage: Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller.  He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961.  Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters.  The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot.
citations: Catch-22 Nately