Helen E. Augur (died 1969) was an American journalist and historical writer. Augur was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and graduated from Barnard College in 1916. She became a journalist in Chicago, leaving for a while after the war to become a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Russia. She began writing for McCall's in 1932. In 1937 Augur had a "torrid, though short-lived love affair" with her second cousin, Edmund Wilson.
Augur wrote several books, including Zapotec.
She died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, on September 15, 1969, and was buried in Lowville, New York.
Works
- (tr.) Religious Conversion: A Bio-Psychological Study by Sante De Sanctis. London & New York, 1927. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.
- An American Jezebel: The Life of Anne Hutchinson, 1930
- The Book of Fairs, 1939
- Passage to Glory: John Ledyard's America, 1946
- Tall Ships to Cathay, 1951
- Zapotec, 1954
- The Secret War of Independence, 1955
References
- ^ "Class Notes". Barnard Alumnae. 19 (2). Barnard College: 44. Winter 1970.
- ^ "Now-and-then". McCall's. Vol. 59. March 1932. p. 2.
- Augur, Helen (September 1954). "Mystery City of Mexico". Science Digest. Vol. 26, no. 3. p. 66.
- Reuel K. Wilson, To the life of the silver harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod, p.47
- Meyers, Jeffrey (1995). Edmund Wilson: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-395-68993-6.
- "ZAPOTEC by Helen Augur | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- Wilson, Edmund (1971). Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-374-28189-2.
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