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.
Augur 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 and Tall Ships to Cathay. Her book The Secret War of Independence has been called a "memorable account" of "the secret machinations surrounding the American Revolution."
She died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, on September 15, 1969, and was buried in Lowville, New York.
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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