[4] Konopacka was born in Rawa Mazowiecka, Congress Poland, and grew up in Warsaw, where she trained in horse riding, swimming, and skating.

While studying at the Faculty of Philology of the Warsaw University she also took up skiing and athletics, but soon abandoned winter sports because the training facilities were too far from her home.

According to professor Anna Nasiłowska, Konopacka's works were valued for their feminist approach to analyzing the relationship between a man and a woman, and for their reminiscences of youth and the treatment of the topic of jealousy.

After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, the couple immigrated to the United States, arriving there through Spain, Portugal and Brazil in September 1941.

After her second husband's death in 1959, she moved to Florida, where in 1960 she graduated from an art college at which point she became a painter, working under the alias of Helen George.