Finkelstein describes two known frauds, that of The Painted Bird by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski and Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, and how they were defended by people even after they'd been exposed.

He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird ( 1965 ) and Being There ( 1971 ).

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

" Jonathon Yardley, reviewing it for The Miami Herald, wrote: " Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosiński's The Painted Bird.

Also, according to Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, The Painted Bird was Kosiński's most successful attempt at profiteering from the Holocaust by maintaining an aura of a chronicle.

In addition, several claims that Kosiński committed plagiarism in writing The Painted Bird were leveled against him.

According to Eliot Weinberger, an American writer, essayist, editor and translator, Kosiński was not the author of The Painted Bird.

In a review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan, D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University wrote " For years Kosinski passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own experience during the Holocaust.

Kosiński himself addressed these claims in the introduction to the 1976 reissue of The Painted Bird, saying that " Well-intentioned writers critics, and readers sought facts to back up their claims that the novel was autobiographical.

Facts about my life and my origins, I felt, should not be used to test the book's authenticity, any more than they should be used to encourage readers to read The Painted Bird.

They also alleged Kosiński wrote The Painted Bird in Polish, and had it secretly translated into English.

" American biographer James Sloan notes that New York poet, publisher and translator, George Reavey, claimed to have written The Painted Bird for Kosiński.

The article asserted that The Painted Bird, assumed by some to be semi-autobiographical, was largely a work of fiction.

* The Painted Bird ( 1965 )

* Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger ( French award for best foreign work of fiction ) for The Painted Bird

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Bird species include Cooper's Hawk, Painted Bunting, and Yellow Choochity Warbler.

The Binya-Cocoparra area is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because of its relatively large population ( of up to 50 individuals ) of the near threatened Painted Honeyeater, as well as the Diamond Firetail.

* Jerzy Kosinski – The Painted Bird

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* " Painted Bird " by Siouxsie and the Banshees on ' A Kiss in the Dreamhouse '

One of the tracks, " Liquid Bird " is based on a sample of Painted Bird by Siouxsie and the Banshees.

" Perhaps the most surprising element of this aspect of Kosiński's mystifications is that he obtained from his mother, who was still alive in Poland – the father had died by the time The Painted Bird was published – a letter corroborating the claim that he had been separated from his family during the war.

The Painted Bird ( Der Gemalte Vogel ) is a controversial 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński which describes the world as seen by a young boy, " considered a Gypsy or Jewish stray ," who wanders about small towns scattered around Eastern Europe during World War II.

The Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor, Paweł Dudziak, noted that the Painted Bird is a great, if controversial piece.

Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of Reavey's literary career was his claim, made to New York press and to British editor and publisher, Alan Clodd, that he had written The Painted Bird for Jerzy Kosiński.

In 1965, Kosinski dedicated his novel The Painted Bird to her, and it was at this time that she began to feel ill. Kosinski fictionalized his marriage to Mary Hayward Weir in his 1977 novel Blind Date referring to her under the pseudonym Mary – Jane Kirkland.

Other examples include Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), The English Patient ( 1996 ), Titanic ( 1997 ), The Painted Veil ( 2006 ), Tristan + Isolde ( 2006 ), Atonement ( 2008 ) and Australia ( 2008 ).

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Based on the novel The Painted Veil.

It is the setting of John Grisham's novel A Painted House.

John Grisham attended first grade at Black Oak Elementary School for one semester, and his novel A Painted House is set in Black Oak and the surrounding area.

A year later, she starred in another W. Somerset Maugham novel, a remake of The Painted Veil in the role originated by Greta Garbo, released as The Seventh Sin.

Painted mural depicting Sun Wukong ( in yellow ) and other main characters of the novel

Charles de Lint, in his novel The Painted Boy ( 2010 ), refers to the ancestral spirit world as Aztlán.

* Many scenes from the film The Painted Veil, adapted from the 1925 W. Somerset Maugham novel The Painted Veil were filmed in Guilin and the surrounding area.

Siobhán Parkinson's novel Painted Ladies ( 2010 ) centres on the life of Marie Krøyer.

The examples Aarseth gives include a diverse group of texts: wall inscriptions of the temples in ancient Egypt that are connected two-dimensionally ( on one wall ) or three dimensionally ( from wall to wall or room to room ); the I Ching ; Apollinaire ’ s Calligrammes in which the words of the poem “ are spread out in several directions to form a picture on the page, with no clear sequence in which to be read ”; Marc Saporta ’ s Composition No. 1, Roman, a novel with shuffleable pages ; Raymond Queneau ’ s One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems ; B. S. Johnson ’ s The Unfortunates ; Milorad Pavic ’ s Landscape Painted with Tea ; Joseph Weizenbaum ’ s ELIZA ; Ayn Rand ’ s play Night of January 16th, in which members of the audience form a jury and choose one of two endings ; William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter ’ s Racter ; Michael Joyce ’ s Afternoon: a story ; Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle ’ s Multi-User Dungeon ( aka MUD1 ); and James Aspnes ’ s TinyMUD.

Like his recent coming-of-age novel, A Painted House, Skipping represents a departure for the king of the legal thrillers, but in this case, it's to an unworthy destination.

The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 Southern Gothic novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, originally titled A Painted Devil.

A Painted House is a February 2001 novel by American author John Grisham.