Helen Augur

Helen Augur
Helen Augur at Barnard College, c. 1915
Born(1894-12-25)December 25, 1894
Albert Lea, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedSeptember 15, 1969(1969-09-15) (aged 64)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
EducationBarnard College
OccupationsJournalist, editor, radio writer
Years active1920s–1970s
Employer(s)The New York Times; U.S. Office of War Information
Known forJournalism and radio work; U.S. Office of War Information activities

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.

Augur 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 and Tall Ships to Cathay. Her book The Secret War of Independence has been called a "memorable account" of "the secret machinations surrounding the American Revolution."

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

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "Class Notes". Barnard Alumnae. 19 (2). Barnard College: 44. Winter 1970.
  2. 1 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.