Gabriela Zapolska was born on March 30, 1857 in Podhajce, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now Pidhaytsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a writer, known for
Sezonowa milosc (1918),
O czym sie nie mówi (1924) and
O czym sie nie mówi... (1939). She was married to Stanislaw Janowski and Konstanty Sniezko-Blocki. She died on December 17, 1921 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine].