Being There (13 page)

Mr. Kosinski won the National Book Award for
Steps,
the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in literature, best Screenplay of the Year Award for
Being There
from both the Writers Guild of America and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the B'rith Shalom Humanitarian Freedom Award, the Polonia Media Award, the American Civil Liberties Union First Amendment Award and International House Harry Edmonds Life Achievement Award. He was a recipient of honorary Ph.D.s in Hebrew letters from Spertus College of Judaica and in humane letters from both Albion College, Michigan (1988) and Potsdam College of New York State University (1989).

An adept of photographic art, with one-man exhibitions to his credit in Warsaw's State Crooked Circle Gallery (1957), Andre Zarre Gallery in New York (1988), and in the Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago (1992), Mr. Kosinski was also an avid polo player and skier. In his film-acting debut in Warren Beatty's
Reds,
he portrayed Grigori Zinoviev, the Russian revolutionary leader.

Mr. Kosinski died in New York on May 3, 1991.