**Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz** was a Polish writer, journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. One of his best known works, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was *The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma*. Literary historians believe that the book inspired the 1971 novel *Being There* by Jerzy Kosiński who sparked considerable controversy in the West. (from the English Wikipedia)
