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. 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.
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1897
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1981 (aged 83)
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