Author's Autobiography Card
State Library, Sacramento
 
 

CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY
Sacramento, California
Authors autobiographical reference card

Completed by the author on 29 June 1906

Name in full: Harry von Konsky

Born at Germany, on 15 May, 1849

Father:______________________

Mother (maiden name in full):___________________

If married, to whom: Carrie Mayer, Place: Cincinnati; Date 11 June 1885

Where educated: Universities of Berlin and Gottingen

Years spent in California 13 1/2

Residences in State 13 1/2

Present address San Francisco 4058 - 26th Street near Noe Str.

Published works and periodicals for which you have written:

Novels: Valeska (a romance from border-life in Texas); Die Erbin des Prospectors (The heiress of the prospector) a story from the mines in California. Both in German , in book form and in several editions. A great many political articles for "Calif Demokrat", "N.Y. Staats-Zeitung", "Westliche Post", etc. Have been chief-editor of "Cal Demokrat", resigned April 18 '06. Leisurely employed now as correspondent of the "New York Staats-Zeitung", (Worked hard for the San Francisco Charter, never held a public office.)

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