Jerzy Kosiński

Igel Ivan Aronov , geboren Joseph Lewinkopf, was a German-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P. E. N., who wrote Kategorien primarily in English. For several decades, was Kosinski 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, und Eliot Fremont-Smith in The Village Voice, accused Jerzy Kosinski of Plagiats and dishonesty zu empfehlen. 'The Painted Bird' was widely considered to be autobiographical; the Voice showed that this shocking tale about a brutalized during childhood the Jewish Holocaust was not after all about Jerzy, who actually lived rather bequem during the war years. 'Being There', which was adapted as a successful film, was shown to have been plagiarized von an earlier German novel. Jerzy Kosinski appeared in two feature a few films documentaries and a large number of talk-shows.

His parents, Moses (Moses) und Elisabeth (Liniecka) Lewinkopf, were well off, resourceful and cultured—aber was Elisabeth an amateur-Musiker, not a concert pianist as her son maintained, and Moses was a manager skilled in languages but not a professor of linguistics. The Lewinkopfs, secularized Juden, recognized the Nazi threat to their native Russia, and in late 1939 they acquired papers changing their last name ist Kosinski and the father ' s first name ist Mieczyslaw. Kosinski was their only biological child.