Annamarie Honnold
Annamarie Honnold (1914 - August 16, 2017) was an American Bahá'í author, teacher and United Nations representative. Perhaps her most notable book is Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Background[edit]
Annamarie was born to Swiss parents, John and Anna Kunz, in Urbana, Illinois in 1914. Her mother became a Bahá'í the following year. Her parents went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1921 and met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, who revealed the following prayer for Annamarie and her sister:
"He is God!
Oh God! Make thou these two sweet children, Annamarie Kunz and Margaret Rosa Kunz, brilliant and heavenly, and rear them up in the bosom of graces so that they may like two pearls in the mother-pearl of Bahá’í education attain to the utmost lustre and luminosity, and that the light of Thine infinite favor shine forth from their foreheads.
Verily, Thou art the Giver, the Bestower and the Affectionate."
Annamarie studied sociology at the University of Illinois in the 1930s, and married John Honnold in 1939. She began writing articles on the Faith for various magazines in the 1940's, and wrote an introduction to the 1953 edition of Some Answered Questions. She represented the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, and later the International Bahá'í Community, to the United Nations in New York in the 1960's and 70's.
Publications[edit]
- 1982 - Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
- 1994 - Why They Became Bahá'ís: First Generation Bahá'ís By 1963
- 1999 - Divine Therapy: Pearls of Wisdom from the Bahá'í Writings
