Annie Laurie Lemp Konta (died 1939) was an American writer and socialite. [1]
Annie Laurie Lemp was born to William J. Lemp and Julia Lemp in St. Louis, Missouri. [2] [3] [4] Her family owned and her grandfather had founded the Lemp Brewing Company. [5]
In 1905, a travel article she wrote appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . [6]
Lemp Konta published a book and a pamphlet. [7] Her book, The History of French Literature from the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticleer, was published in 1910. [8] [9] [10] It was written for the general reader and received reviews that were largely positive. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] She wrote the book on a typewriter, without the help of writing assistants, over a ten-year period. [17]
Her pamphlet, "A Plea for Moderation: Based Upon Observations of an American Woman in a Belligerent Country," was published after the beginning of World War I; it defended Wilhelm II and argued against Prohibition in the United States. [7]
She married Henry J. Meyer. They divorced in 1893 amidst allegations of Meyer's abuse. They had a custody battle over their son, Geoffrey. [18] [19]
She married Alexander Konta, a Hungarian-born banker and theatre producer, on October 8, 1895, at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. [20] [21] [4] [5] [1] [2] She and Alexander Konta were separated by 1914. [3] Alexander Konta died in 1933. [1] Geoffrey, then known as Geoffrey Konta, became an attorney who worked for William Randolph Hearst. [22] [23]
She died of a stroke in December 1939 in New York City. [5]