Jerzy Kosinski lived a full life to say the least. Born to Jewish parents in 1933 he survived the Second World War and the Holocaust thanks to local underground networks. Kosinski emigrated to America in 1957 where he started writing. His 1965 novel Painted Bird, about the Polish wartime experience made his name. It also inspired a rather silly Siouxsie & the Banshees song of the same name a couple of decades later.
Koinski also wrote Steps and Being There among other works of note, narrowly avoided being at the scene of the Sharon Tate / Manson killings in 1969 and was plagued in later life by accusations of plagiarism. He committed suicide in 1991. Here, Michael Gira project, The Angels of Light, dedicate a song to him.
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