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- <title>
- May 13, 1991: Died:Jerzy Kosinski
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 13, 1991 Crack Kids
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 55
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- <p> DIED. Jerzy Kosinski, 57, brooding Polish-born author of The
- Painted Bird, Steps and Being There; by his own hand; in New
- York City. His wife Katherina said he had recently grown
- despondent over a worsening heart condition. In his writing,
- Kosinski explored themes drawn from his hellish childhood as a
- Jew in Nazi-occupied Poland and its reverberations in his adult
- life.
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- </body>
- </article>
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