This author of the short story "Chantal" wrote about a world traveler George Lavater in the novel Blind Date and about a rich hedonist Jonathan Whalen in the novel The Devil Tree. In a better-known novel, he writes about Lekh who is tragically in love with a stupid village whore named Ludmina and a boy who is sent to live with his superstitious foster mother Marta. A series of sexually explicit vignettes comprise his novel Steps, which won the 1969 National Book Award, a
This author of the short story "Chantal" wrote about a world traveler George Lavater in the novel Blind Date and about a rich hedonist Jonathan Whalen in the novel The Devil Tree. In a better-known novel, he writes about Lekh who is tragically in love with a stupid village whore named Ludmina and a boy who is sent to live with his superstitious foster mother Marta. A series of sexually explicit vignettes comprise his novel Steps, which won the 1969 National Book Award, and he tells of an ►innocent gardener named Chance in Being There. FTP, name this Jewish-American author who wrote The Painted Bird.    
This author of the short story "Chantal" wrote about a world traveler George Lavater in the novel Blind Date and about a rich hedonist Jonathan Whalen in the novel The Devil Tree.
Jerzy Kosinski 