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Jerzy Kosiński ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kɔˈɕij̃skʲi]; born Józef Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American writer and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English.
Jun 10, 2024 · Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born American writer whose novels were sociological studies of individuals in controlling and bureaucratic societies. Perhaps his best-known books are The Painted Bird (1965), Steps (1968), and Being There (1971).
Nov 16, 2023 · Jerzy Kosinski’s Fall From Grace: Investigating a Literary Smear Campaign. Celebrated everywhere from Elaine’s to the Oscars, the Polish-born anti-Communist was the toast of...
Mar 20, 2017 · In 1982, Jerzy Kosinski, the Polish-American novelist and literary celebrity, appeared on the cover of the Times Magazine, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Naked to the waist, his shoulder...
May 4, 1991 · Jerzy Kosinski, the Polish-born novelist and World War II Holocaust survivor who won acclaim with such best-sellers as “The Painted Bird” and “Being There,” killed himself Friday...
Jerzy Kosinski was born on 14 June 1933 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. He was a writer and actor, known for Being There (1979), Reds (1981) and The Painted Bird (2019). He was married to Kiki von Fraunhofer-Kosinski and Mary Emma (Hayward) Weir. He died on 3 May 1991 in New York City, New York, USA.
May 12, 1996 · “Court jester” to his powerful American friends, that’s how Jerzy Kosinski sometimes referred to himself. Even the truths of Kosinski’s life are astonishing in their variety and complexity.
The Poles branded Jerzy Kosinski a Holocaust profiteer because the novel, which drew critical comparison with The Diary of Anne Frank, was immediately granted the status of a chronicle of the Holocaust.
May 3, 1991 · As a child during World War II, he lived in central Poland under a false identity his father gave him to use, Jerzy Kosiński. A Roman Catholic priest issued him a forged baptismal certificate. The Kosiński family survived the Holocaust thanks to local villagers, who offered assistance to Jewish Poles often at great personal risk (the penalty ...
Jerzy Kosinski, ca. 1973. Photograph by Rob Mieremet Editor’s Note: The following conversation with Jerzy Kosinski, which does not contain the customary interviewer’s headnote, is a much expanded version of the one that appeared in The Paris Review in 1972.
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