Helen Augur
Helen Augur | |
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Helen Augur at Barnard College, c. 1915 | |
| Born | November 27, 1904 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | September 10, 1995 (aged 90) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Barnard College |
| Occupations | Journalist, editor, radio writer |
| Years active | 1920s–1970s |
| Employer(s) | The New York Times; U.S. Office of War Information |
| Known for | Journalism 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.[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
- ^ a b "Class Notes". Barnard Alumnae. 19 (2). Barnard College: 44. Winter 1970.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Meyers, Jeffrey (1995). Edmund Wilson: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-395-68993-6.
- ^ "ZAPOTEC by Helen Augur". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mexican Life. Vol. 30. 1954. p. 32.
- ^ Boyd, Kelly (October 9, 2019). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor & Francis. p. 592. ISBN 978-1-136-78765-2.
- ^ 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.