Helen Augur

Helen Augur at Barnard College, c. 1915

Helen E. Augur (died 1969) was an American journalist and historical writer.

Biography

Augur was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and graduated from Barnard College in 1916. ^{[1] [2]}

Augur 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] [7]} and Tall Ships to Cathay. ^[8] Her book The Secret War of Independence has been called a "memorable account" of "the secret machinations surrounding the American Revolution." ^[9]

She died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, on September 15, 1969, ^[1] and was buried in Lowville, New York. ^[10]

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

1. "Class Notes". Barnard Alumnae. 19 (2). Barnard College: 44. Winter 1970.
2. "Now-and-then". McCall's . Vol. 59. March 1932. p. 2.
3. Augur, Helen (September 1954). "Mystery City of Mexico". Science Digest . Vol. 26, no. 3. p. 66.
4. Wilson, Reuel K. (2009). To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod. University Press of New England. p. 47. ISBN   9781584658092.
5. Meyers, Jeffrey (1995). Edmund Wilson: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 182. ISBN   978-0-395-68993-6.
6. "ZAPOTEC by Helen Augur". Kirkus Reviews.
7. Wood, W. Warner (2008). Made in Mexico: Zapotec Weavers and the Global Ethnic Art Market. Indiana University Press. p. 41. ISBN   978-0-253-35154-8.
8. Mexican Life. Vol. 30. 1954. p. 32.
9. Boyd, Kelly (October 9, 2019). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor & Francis. p. 592. ISBN   978-1-136-78765-2.
10. 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.