Helen Augur was an American journalist and historical writer. She was a cousin of Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson was an American writer and literary and social critic and noted man of letters.-Early life:Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father, Edmund Wilson, Sr., was a lawyer and served as New Jersey Attorney General. Wilson attended The Hill School, a college preparatory...

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Augur was born in Albert Lea

Albert Lea

Albert Lea is the name of two places in Minnesota, United States.*Albert Lea, Minnesota*Albert Lea Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 and educated at Barnard College

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...

. She became a journalist in Chicago

Chicago

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, leaving for a while after the war to become a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

in Russia

Russia

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. She began writing for McCall's

McCall's

McCall's was a monthly American women's magazine that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s. It was established as a small-format magazine called The Queen in 1873...

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

Lung cancer

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Works

• (tr.) Religious conversion: a bio-psychological study by Sante De Sanctis
  Sante De Sanctis
  Sante De Sanctis was an Italian doctor, psychologist and psychiatrist. He is considered as one of the founders of the Italian psychology and neuropsychiatry.-References:...
  
  . London & New York, 1927. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method was an influential series of monographs published published 1910–1965 under the general editorship of Charles Kay Ogden. This series published some of the landmark works on psychology and philosophy, particularly the thought...
  
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• An American Jezebel: the life of Anne Hutchinson
  Anne Hutchinson
  Anne Hutchinson was one of the most prominent women in colonial America, noted for her strong religious convictions, and for her stand against the staunch religious orthodoxy of 17th century Massachusetts...
  
  , 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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