Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of June 14th
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It is the 165th day of the year, leaving 200 days remaining in 2022.
He told stories of people, sometimes in controlling societies, who somehow did remarkable things. Or of people whom others thought did remarkable things.
Such a description may fit Kosinski himself. His novels were praised while Kosinski was accused of plagiarizing the works. The accusations were that Kosinski lifted several of his stories from old, largely unknown books published in Poland. Kosinski denied this, and it was never proven.
For instance, his first novel, The Painted Bird, tells of a young Jewish boy abandoned during World War II, and forced to roam and survive alone on the streets of wartime Eastern Europe. It is seen as autobiographical, as Kosinski often told similar stories of his own childhood.
His best known novel, Being There, is the story of an isolated, introverted gardener who gets his knowledge of the outside world through television. Through a series of chance circumstances, he becomes an aide to a wealthy businessman, an adviser to a U.S. president, and a sought-after pundit on television. Those things happen not because he's a genius, but he speaks in platitudes that people find meaningful because they really do not understand him.
The book was made into a movie in 1979, starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas.
Kosinski won a National Book Award for Fiction his novel Steps, a series of loosely connected stories.
He died in 1991 in New York.
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