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. 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. She died in 1969 from lung cancer.

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