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.[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]
Helen Augur at Barnard College, c. 1915
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]
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. Barnard College. 19 (2): 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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