Helen Augur
Helen Augur (1897-1981) was an American journalist and historical writer. She was a cousin of Edmund Wilson. Augur was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota and educated at Barnard College. She became a journalist in Chicago, leaving for a while after the war to become a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Russia.[1] 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.[3]
Augur wrote several books, including Zapotec.[4]
She died from lung cancer.[5]
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
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gollark: I can't be bothered to grep through all my ebooks and check, but I think there was also a ram head involved.
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References
- Science Digest, Vol. 26 (1954), p.166
- McCall's, Vol. 59 (1932), p.15
- Reuel K. Wilson, To the life of the silver harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod, p.47
- "ZAPOTEC by Helen Augur | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- Edmund Wilson, Upstate: records and recollections of northern New York, Syracuse University Press, 1990, p.348
External links
- Works by or about Helen Augur in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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