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On August 8, 1969, he was scheduled to fly from Paris to Los Angeles to join some friends for dinner at the Roman Polanski-Sharon Tate home in Hollywood. Because his luggage had accidentally been sent to New York, the delays caused him to miss the party. His dear friend Voytek Frykowski, Sharon Tate and the rest of the guests were slaughtered that evening by the Manson Family. The author later addressed the twist of fate in the novel entitled Blind Date. (see also: 'Steve McQueen' and Jeremy Lloyd.) Born in Poland, Kosinski moved to New York in 1957, and later become a U.S. citizen. As a Guggenheim Fellow, he studied at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University. Later he taught American prose at Princeton and Yale. He served two terms as President of the American Center of PEN, the international association of writers and editors. A best-selling novelist, he was also a prolific photographer whose work was exhibited in Poland and the States. Once worked as the uniformed chauffeur of a wealthy Harlem Jazz musician.