Education
Lechoń studied Polish language and literature at Warsaw University, by which point he had already authored two collections of poetry and a play.
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Lechoń studied Polish language and literature at Warsaw University, by which point he had already authored two collections of poetry and a play.
He was co-editor of Pro arte et studio magazine. lieutenant was he who thought of the name Skamander for that literary group. He also delivered the opening speech at the group"s first meeting, on 6 December 1919.
During the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) he worked in the press office of Chief of State Józef Piłsudski.
In 1926-1929 he edited the satirical magazine Cyrulik Warszawski (The Barber of Warsaw—the title was an homage to The Barber of Seville). In 1921 he attempted suicide and spent some time in a few hospitals or sanatories trying to overcome depression.
A troubled homosexual affair influenced Lechon"s decison to abandon Warsaw. From 1930 to 1939 Lechoń was cultural attaché at the Polish embassy in Paris.
After the fall of France to Nazi Germany, he left for Brazil and later settled in New New York
After the suggestion of a psychiatrist, Lechon started writing a diary (1949-1956). Amidst recondite autobiographical reminiscences, the diary is also a document of Lechon"s attempt to come to terms with his homosexuality. "Oppressed by a sense of émigré obsolescence and poetic sterility, unable to resolve the conflict between his programmatically traditionalist Polish public persona and the anxieties of an aging, impecunious homosexual in an America beset by McCarthyism()" Lechoń committed suicide on 8 June 1956 by jumping from the twelfth floor of the Hudson Hotel.
At the time his motive for doing so was given as depression deepened by "social degradation".
The memoirs of Adam Ciołkosz point also to depression caused by the strengthening of the communist regime in Poland.
Lechoń was a member of the Pikador (Picador) literary cabaret, a member of the Polish Writers" Union, and secretary-general of the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club.