Annie Laurie Lemp was born to William J. Lemp and Julia Lemp in
St. Louis, Missouri. Her family owned and her grandfather had founded the
Lemp Brewing Company. In 1905, a travel article she wrote appeared in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lemp Konta published a book and a pamphlet. Her book,
The History of French Literature from the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticleer, was published in 1910. It was written for the general reader and received reviews that were largely positive. She wrote the book on a typewriter, without the help of writing assistants, over a ten-year period. 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. She married Alexander Konta, a Hungarian-born banker and theatre producer, on October 8, 1895, at
Ventnor on the
Isle of Wight. She died of a stroke in December 1939 in
New York City. == Works ==