Jan Józef Szczepański (January 12, 1919 – February 20, 2003) was a Polish writer, reporter, essayist, film scriptwriter and translator, Tatra mountaineer, and traveller.
[2] From the years 1932 to 1937, his family lived in Katowice, where Szczepański attended the boys' State Gymnasium and High School at Mickiewicza Street.
In 1941, he joined the Military Organization Lizard Union (from 1942 National Armed Forces) and worked in an intelligence unit until 1943, when he became a soldier of the Home Army.
He was the last president of the Association of Polish Writers, dissolved by the martial law authorities (he documented this period in the book Kadencja).
On August 23, 1980, he joined the appeal of 64 scholars, writers and publicists to the communist authorities to start a dialogue with striking workers.