Lechoń studied the Polish language and literature at the University of Warsaw, by which point he had already authored two collections of poetry and a play.

Amid recondite autobiographical reminiscences, the diary also documents Lechoń's attempts 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 ...",[4] Lechoń committed suicide on 8 June 1956 by jumping from the twelfth floor of the Hudson Hotel.

The memoirs of Adam Ciołkosz point also to depression caused by the strengthening of the communist regime in Poland.

Lechoń made his literary debut at the age of 14 with poetry collections entitled Na złotym polu ('In a Golden Field', 1913) and Po różnych ścieżkach ('On Different Paths', 1914).

In 1916, his drama W pałacu Stanisława Augusta ('At the Palace of Stanisław August') premiered at the Old Orangery in Warsaw.

His poetry collection Srebrne i czarne ('Silver and Black') earned him an award from the Polish Book Publishers' Association.