Jerzy Kosinski

Józef Lewinkopf, who took the name Jerzy Kosinski, was born in Łódź in 1933 into a Polish Jewish family. He lived through the Occupation under a false Catholic identity, protected together with his parents by the inhabitants of Dąbrowa Rzeczycka. He arrived in the United States in 1957, almost penniless, and worked as a driver and a parking attendant. He produced nine novels and essays, twice served as president of American PEN, and played Grigori Zinoviev in a film by Warren Beatty. He died in New York in 1991.

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• NovelThe Painted BirdJerzy Kosinski · 1965Literature