biography
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Kosinski, Jerzy (Nikodem)
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pronunciation:
[kosinskee]
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| lived:
| (1933–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Lodz, Poland, USA. He had a horrific childhood hiding from the Nazis during World War 2, and a tenuous existence under the Stalinists in Poland. He studied at the University of Lodz (1950 BA; MAs 1953, 1955) and did postgraduate work in sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1955–7). Emigrating to the USA (1957), he did further postgraduate work at Columbia University (1958–63) and the New School for Social Research (1962–6). He drew upon his past experiences to write semi-autobiographical novels with elements of violence, anxiety, and eroticism, as in The Painted Bird (1965) and Steps (1968), and also wrote several books on sociology under the name of Joseph Novak. He committed suicide in New York City. |
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