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The article attempts to investigate Julian Kornhauser’s autobiographical strategies in his writings. The author endeavors to interpret the fragments of the poet’s biography, focusing on his typical manner of intimate addressing himself (narrative distance, discrepancy between the narrator and the persona, concealing characters under the veil of the cipher). The starting point for these considerations, as well as the main object of this paper, is Kornhauser’s autobiographical prose entitled A Home, a Dream, and Child’s Plays [Dom, sen i gry dziecięce]. Its reading is juxtaposed with the autobiographical notes published in literary periodicals by Jakub Kornhauser, the poet’s son. The whole project is also possible due to the examination of the critical reception and the reconstruction of the truth about Kornhauser’s life.