 Svetlana Alliluyeva, who had a friendship with Kosiński, is introduced as a character in his novel "Blind Date".Kosiński wrote his novel "Pinball" (1982) for his friend George Harrison, having conceived of the idea for the book at least ten years before writing it.Kosiński practiced the photographic arts, with one-man exhibitions to his credit in Warsaw's Crooked Circle Gallery (1957), and in the Andre Zarre Gallery in New York (1988).