The Magnificent 100 presents, in an alphabetically organized lexicon, 97 illustrated vignettes popularizing the biographies and works of over 100 Polish artists and writers through the ages. It also contains numerous online links to galleries of the artworks of artists and books of writers described in it, so readers can significantly expand their knowledge through those sources. The idea of presenting artists and writers together shows the more complex picture of the connections and interactions among them that are often treated separately. (By the way, some Polish writers were great painters as well!) The shocking aspects of the lives of our Magnificent 100 are presented in this book to help understand the psychological “genesis” of their works (and there is a lot of it).