Jerzy Kosiński Video | Book Interviews

Jerzy Kosiński, born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N.. He was from a Jewish family in Poland and emigrated to America as an adult, where he wrote primarily in English. He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird and Being There. Being There was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film in 1979.