- Polish author, who won the 1905 Nobel Prize in literature "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer".
- His most popular novels include "The Trilogy" (1884-1888), set during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century, and certainly "Quo Vadis?" (1895), which has been filmed several times, most notably Quo Vadis (1951).
- For a brief period, 1876-77, Sienkiewicz and other Polish émigrés, including world-renowned actress Helena Modjeska, lived in then-rural Anaheim, California. None of the colonists was adept at farming, so the experiment failed and Sienkiewicz and his wife returned to Poland.
- Born to a wealthy Polish family, he was a noble of the Oszyk coat of arms.
- Had two children, Henryk and Jadwiga.
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