Jerzy Kosinski (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: James Park Sloan
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1933-1991
- Setting: Poland and New York City
- Principal Characters: Jerzy Kosinski, Mieczyslaw “Moses” (Lewinkopf) Kosinski, Elzbieta Kosinski, Katherina “Kiki” von Fraunhofer, Mary Hayward Weir, Urszula “Ula” Dudziak, Lilla van Saher, Dr. Krystyna Iwaskiewicz Rytel, Peter Skinner, Geoffrey Stokes
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, World War II, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, Creative process, Nazism or Nazis, Poland or Polish people
- Locales: New York, NY, Poland
For many readers, the story of Jerzy Kosinski has all the ingredients of a classic tragedy, and James Park Sloan’s Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography will not disappoint them. Here was a young Jewish immigrant from Poland who could speak very little English when he escaped to America from behind the Iron Curtain in 1957. In a few years, however, his best-selling account of his survival of the Holocaust came out in perfect English; he married an American heiress and published first-rate fiction in his new language.
Then, suddenly, fate struck him down in the person of two...
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