Search - List of Books by Jerzy Kosinski

Death

The Painted Bird

Steps

Being There

Plagiarism allegations

"The significant point about Jerzy Kosi?ski was that ... his books ... had a vision and a voice consistent with one another and with the man himself. The problem was perhaps that he was a successful, worldly author who played polo, moved in fashionable circles and even appeared as an actor in Warren Beatty's Reds. He seemed to have had an adventurous and rather kinky sexuality which, to many, made him all the more suspect. All in all, he was a perfect candidate for the snarling pack of literary hangers-on to turn on. There is something about a storyteller becoming rich and having a reasonably full private life that has a powerful potential to irritate so that, when things go wrong, it causes a very special kind of joy."

"This theory explains much: the reckless driving, the abuse of small dogs, the thirst for fame, the fabrication of personal experience, the secretiveness about how he wrote, the denial of his Jewish identity. 'There was a hollow space at the center of Kosinski that had resulted from denying his past,' Sloan writes, 'and his whole life had become a race to fill in that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon himself like a burnt-out star.' On this theory, Kosinski emerges as a classic borderline personality, frantically defending himself against all-out psychosis.

• The Future Is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians (1960), published under the pseudonym "Joseph Novak"
• No Third Path (1962), published under the pseudonym "Joseph Novak"
• The Painted Bird (1965)
• The Art of the Self: Essays à propos Steps (1968)
• Steps (1969)
• Being There (1971)
• The Devil Tree (1973, revised & expanded 1982)
• Cockpit (1975)
• Blind Date (1977)
• Passion Play (1979)
• Pinball (1982)
• The Hermit of 69th Street (1988)
• Passing By: Selected Essays, 1962—1991 (1992)

• Being There (novel and screenplay, 1979)
• Reds (actor, 1981)
• The Statue of Liberty (self, 1985)
• ?ód? Ghetto (voice of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, 1989)
• Religion, Inc. (actor, 1989)

• Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (award for best foreign work of fiction) for The Painted Bird (France)
• 1969 — National Book Award for Steps.
• 1970...Award in Literature, National Institute of Arts and Letters and American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• 1973—75...President of the American Chapter of P.E.N. Re-elected 1974, serving maximum 2 terms allowed.
• 1974...B'rith Shalom Humanitarian Freedom Award.
• 1977 — American Civil Liberties Union First Amendment Award.
• 1979 — Writers Guild of America, East Best Screenplay Award for Being There with award winning screenwriter Robert C. Jones.
• 1980...Polonia Media Perspectives Achievement Award.
• 1981 — British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Best Screenplay of the Year Award for Being There.
• International House Harry Edmonds Life Achievement Award.
• Received Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Hebrew Letters from Spertus College of Judaica.
• 1988...Received Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from Albion College, Michigan.
• 1989...Received Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from State University of New York at Potsdam.

Books

• Eliot Weinberger Genuine Fakes in his collection Karmic Traces; New Directions, 2000, ISBN 0811214567; ISBN 978-0811214568.
• Sepp L. Tiefenthaler, Jerzy Kosinski: Eine Einfuhrung in Sein Werk, 1980, ISBN 3416015568
• Norman Lavers, Jerzy Kosinski, 1982, ISBN 0805773525
• Byron L. Sherwin, Jerzy Kosinski: Literary Alarm Clock, 1982, ISBN 0941542009
• Barbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, Protagonista De Jerzy Kosinski: Personaje unico, 1986, ISBN 847496122X
• Paul R. Lilly, Jr., Words in Search of Victims: The Achievement of Jerzy Kosinski, Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1988, ISBN 0873383664
• Welch D. Everman, Jerzy Kosinski: the Literature of Violation, Borgo Press, 1991, ISBN 0893702765.
• Tom Teicholz, ed. Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993, ISBN 0878056254
• Joanna Siedlecka, Czarny ptasior (The Black Bird), CIS, 1994, ISBN 8385458042.
• James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: a Biography, Diane Pub. Co., 1996, ISBN 0788153250.
• Agnieszka Salska, Marek Jedlinski, Jerzy Kosinski : Man and Work at the Crossroads of Cultures, 1997, ISBN 8371710879
• Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed. Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski, New York: G.K. Hall, 1998, ISBN 0783800738

Articles

• Oleg Ivsky, Review of The Painted Bird in Library Journal, Vol. 90, October 1, 1965, p. 4109
• Irving Howe, Review of The Painted Bird in Harper's Magazine, October 1965
• Andrew Feld, Review in Book Week, October 17, 1965, p. 2
• Anne Halley, Review of The Painted Bird in Nation, Vol. 201, November 29, 1965, p. 424
• D.A.N. Jones, Review of Steps in The New York Review of Books, Volume 12, Number 4, February 27, 1969
• Irving Howe, Review of Being There in Harper's Magazine, July 1971, p. 89.
• David H. Richter, The Three Denouements of Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird", Contemporary Literature, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 1974, pp. 370—85
• Gail Sheehy, "The Psychological Novelist as Portable Man", Psychology Today, December 11, 1977, pp. 126—30
• Margaret Kupcinskas Keshawarz, "Simas Kidirka: A Literary Symbol of Democratic Individualism in Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit", Lituanus (Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences), Vol. 25, No.4, Winter 1979
• Roger Copeland, "An Interview with Jerzy Kosinski", New York Art Journal, Vol. 21, pp. 10—12, 1980
• Robert E. Ziegler, "Identity and Anonymity in the Novels of Jerzy Kosinski", Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1981, pp. 99—109
• Barbara Gelb, "Being Jerzy Kosinski", New York Times Magazine, February 21, 1982, pp. 42—46
• Stephen Schiff, "The Kosinski Conundrum", Vanity Fair, June 1988, pp 114—19
• Thomas S. Gladsky, "Jerzy Kosinski's East European Self", Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, Winter 1988, pp. 121—32
• Michael Schumacher, "Jerzy Kosinski", Writer's Yearbook, 1990, Vol. 60, pp. 82—87.
• John Corry, "The Most Considerate of Men", American Spectator, Vol. 24, No. 7, July 1991, pp. 17—18

Biographical accounts