and she is indeed considered so. In 1981 she moved to Manhattan in New York and lived in the USA until 1989. She received a number of prestigious awards, designed theatre costumes and scenography. In 1990 she came back to Warsaw, where she began to write for Playboy, where her topicals have been published for 15 years. She also used to write for Uroda for 12 years. She has published many interesting books, two of which have become best-sellers: "Jak zyskać przyjaciół" (How to Make Friends) and "Jak stracić przyjaciół" (How to Lose Friends).