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    Jerzy Kosiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kɔˈɕij̃skʲi]; born Józef Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American writer and two-time...
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  • Story of Jerzy Kosiński's Wartime Childhood (Polish: Czarny ptasior) is a 1994 book by Polish journalist Joanna Siedlecka about Jerzy Kosiński (Polish-American...
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  • The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about...
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  • Being There is a satirical novel by the Polish-born writer Jerzy Kosinski, published April 21, 1971. Set in America, the story concerns Chance, a simple...
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  • is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, and adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones. Jack Warden...
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  • Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill. The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosiński, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas...
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  • Pittsburgh steel king Ernest T. Weir, and the former wife of Polish author Jerzy Kosiński. The Mary H. Weir Public Library in Weirton, West Virginia is named...
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    Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography is a 1996 biography of the Polish-American and Jewish writer Jerzy Kosiński by American scholar James Park Sloan, published...
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    Steps is a book by a Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosiński, released in 1968 by Random House. The work comprises scores of loosely connected vignettes...
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  • Cockpit is a novel by Polish-American author Jerzy Kosiński, published in 1975. Cockpit is a debriefing after a long, tortuous mission. An agent known...
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  • More Lies About Jerzy is a play written by Davey Holmes, inspired by the last days of the Polish-American novelist, Jerzy Kosiński. It was first produced...
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  • written, directed and produced by Václav Marhoul. An adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's novel of the same name, it is the first film to feature the Interslavic...
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    believe the book inspired the 1971 novel Being There by Jerzy Kosiński, with some charging Kosiński with plagiarism, which sparked considerable controversy...
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  • tennis player Jerzy Jurka, Polish-American computational and molecular biologist Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American...
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    Theater 1996 King Lear Edmund The Public Theater 2001 More Lies About Jerzy Jerzy Kosiński Vineyard Theatre Hamlet Prince Hamlet Shakespeare Theatre of New...
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  • Steps (TV series), Hong Kong Step (film), US, 2017 Steps (novel), by Jerzy Kosinski Systematic Training for Effective Parenting, a book series Step (music)...
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    believed. An American novel, Being There (1971), by fellow Polish native Jerzy Kosiński, has been said to bear a strong resemblance to the exploits of Nicodemus...
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    I get afraid." While he attributed the recent suicide of novelist Jerzy Kosiński to his fear of losing his creativity and sharpness, Williams felt he...
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  • twentieth-century art Gerard Kosinski (born 1954), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Jerzy Kosiński (1933–1991), Polish-American...
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    author Jerzy Kosiński: "I liked the in-joke. Hence, Jerzy Livingston." he explained. One of his best-known characters while writing as Jerzy Livingstone...
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  • Really Trying as Ponty (New Theatre, Bromley) More Lies About Jerzy as Jerzy Kosinski (New End Theatre, Hampstead) The Odd Couple as Felix (Theatre Royal...
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    cable TV show Midnight Blue in New York City. At the same time author Jerzy Kosinski in his novel Pinball referred to it as "the essence of American freedom"...
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    myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity." — Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist (3 May 1991), in his suicide note "Don't worry...
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  • January 1982, Abbott gained the endorsement of such celebrities as writer Jerzy Kosinski. He was convicted of manslaughter but acquitted of murder, and sentenced...
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  • a new style of novelist' alongside contemporaries Ronald Sukenick, Jerzy Kosinski, and William H. Gass[citation needed] while developing an experimental...
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  • and publisher Alan Clodd, that he had written The Painted Bird for Jerzy Kosiński. Reavey's father, Daniel Reavey, was a flax engineer from Belfast and...
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  • song sung by Margaret Whiting and Bob Hope Blind Date, 1977 novel by Jerzy Kosiński Blind Date, art piece by John Duncan Blind (disambiguation) Date (disambiguation)...
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  • (1932–2013) Joanna Chmielewska (1932–2007) Ryszard Kapuściński (1933–1991) Jerzy Kosiński (born 1933) Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (1934–1969) Marek Hłasko (1934–1976)...
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  • graduates of the National Film School in Łódź, as well as the novelist Jerzy Kosinski, in whose clinical prose cool tends towards the sadistic. In Prague...
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  • unquestionably a genius. — Kurt Vonnegut A novel of massive achievement. — Jerzy Kosinski The most important work in American literature since ... Moby-Dick....
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