Name Helen Augur Role Journalist | Died 1969 | |
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Helen Augur (died 1969) 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. 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. She died in 1969 from lung cancer.
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