Jerzy Kosinski
He was one of the world's great writers and intellectuals, acclaimed as a heroic survivor and witness of the Holocaust. Then, in an expose that sent shock waves throughout the intellectual community, he was denounced as a CIA tool, a supreme con man, and a literary fraud, igniting a firestorm of controversy that consumed his reputation and culminated in his headline-making suicide. This compelling biography cuts to the complex heart of the truth about the man and the myth that was Jerzy Kosinski. Photos.