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.[1][2] She became a journalist in Chicago, leaving for a while after the war to become a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Russia.[3] 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.[4][5]
Augur wrote several books, including Zapotec.[6]
She died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, on September 15, 1969,[1] and was buried in Lowville, New York.[7]
- ^ a b "Class Notes". Barnard Alumnae. 19 (2). Barnard College: 44. Winter 1970.
- ^ a b "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.