Helen Augur

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