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  2. <title>
  3. (May  13, 1991) Died:Jerzy Kosinski
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991    
  7. May  13, 1991  Crack Kids                            
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. MILESTONES, Page 55
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  14. <body>
  15. <p>     DIED. Jerzy Kosinski, 57, brooding Polish-born author of The
  16. Painted Bird, Steps and Being There; by his own hand; in New
  17. York City. His wife Katherina said he had recently grown
  18. despondent over a worsening heart condition. In his writing,
  19. Kosinski explored themes drawn from his hellish childhood as a
  20. Jew in Nazi-occupied Poland and its reverberations in his adult
  21. life.
  22. </p>
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  24. </body>
  25. </article>
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