Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosinski (1933 - 1991) authored three of the most widely read novels of the 1960s and 1970s: "The Painted Bird, Steps", and "Being There", the last of which also became a hit film.
Polish-born U.S. writer. He claimed that his horrific experiences as a Jew in World War II Poland and Russia caused him to be mute for much of his childhood. He studied political science and became a professor of sociology before immigrating to the U.S. in 1957. His novel The Painted Bird (1965) is a graphic, surrealistic tale of the horrors surrounding the war. Other successful novels were Steps (1968) and the satiric fable Being There (1970; film, 1979). After his suicide, it was revealed that much of his past had been fabricated.
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