Helen Augur

Helen E. Augur (died 1969) was an American journalist and historical writer. Augur was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota and graduated from Barnard College in 1916. 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.

Augur wrote several books, including ''Zapotec.''

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