Birthday
1933/06/14
Day of death
1991/05/03 (57 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
Also know as
Joseph Novak
Jerzy Nikodem Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. For several decades, Kosinski was famous as a wit, a great raconteur, and a media celebrity. His first three novels were big hits. However, in June 22, 1982, "Jerzy Kosinski's Tainted Words," an article by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith in The Village Voice, accused Jerzy Kosinski of plagiarism and dishonesty. 'The Painte...Read more
(1981) Reds
as Grigory Zinoviev
(1989) A Fool and His Money
as Bettler
(1989) Łódź Ghetto
as Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski
(1995) Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski
as ---
(1995) The Painted Boy
as Self/Writer
(1985) The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest