Jerzy Kosinski was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English.
Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, immigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1970), which was adapted as a film (1979).
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