Helen Augur

Helen Augur (died 1969) was an American journalist and historical writer. She was a cousin of Edmund Wilson.

Augur was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota and educated at Barnard College. She became a journalist in Chicago, leaving for a while after the war to become a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Russia.^[1] She began writing for McCall's in 1932.^[2] In 1937 Augur had a "torrid, though short-lived love affair" with her second cousin, Edmund Wilson.^[3] She died in 1969 from lung cancer.^[4]

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

^ Science Digest, Vol. 26 (1954), p.166
^ McCall's, Vol. 59 (1932), p.15
^ Reuel K. Wilson, To the life of the silver harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod, p.47
^ Edmund Wilson, Upstate: records and recollections of northern New York, Syracuse University Press, 1990, p.348

External links

Works by or about Helen Augur in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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