Harding Lemay


Harding Lemay, also known as Pete Lemay, was an American screenwriter and playwright who was the head writer for the soap opera Another World.

Career

Lemay was head writer of the soap opera Another World, from 1971 to 1979. The series earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1976. By 1979, Lemay decided not to continue writing the series for a ninth straight calendar year, and first handed over to a new writer before leaving for good later that year. He also wrote out three of the show's most popular actors: George Reinholt, Jacqueline Courtney, and Virginia Dwyer, in 1975.
Lemay co-created Lovers and Friends with Paul Rauch, later retooled and referred to as For Richer, For Poorer. Lemay was also a playwright, whose works have been produced both off-Broadway and on Broadway. He was also a friend and mentor to Douglas Marland, who was his subwriter on Another World and later became one of daytime TV's most prolific writers as head writer for Guiding Light, General Hospital and As the World Turns.

Personal life

Lemay was born on March 16, 1922, near the Mohawk Indian reservation in North Bangor, New York, where his mother grew up. He ran away to New York City at age 17 where he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
From September 1947 to 1953, he was married to Priscilla Amidon. He married his second wife, Dorothy Shaw on September 19, 1953; she died in 1994. His third wife was Gloria Gardner. Lemay died on May 26, 2018, at the age of 96.

Positions held

Another World
  • Story consultant
  • Head writer
As the World Turns
  • Story consultant
The Doctors
  • Head writer
Guiding Light
  • Consultant
  • Writer
Lovers and Friends/''For Richer, For Poorer
  • Co-creator
  • Head writer
One Life to Live''
  • Story consultant

    Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards
Wins
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Nominations

  • Head write tenure

Works

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