Preview of The Hermit of 69th Street Summary:

1982, in what has come to be Inknown as "The Village Voice Controversy," two reporters, Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith, wrote an article that accused Jerzy Kosinski of, among other things, dishonestly portraying his past in his fiction and hiring editors who went beyond editing to "collaborate" on his manuscripts.

Friends and publishers jumped to his defense. But despite urging, Kosinski never responded publicly to these charges. When The Hermit...