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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.〔''Science Digest'', Vol. 26 (1954), p.166〕 She began writing for ''McCall's'' in 1932.〔''McCall's'', Vol. 59 (1932), p.15〕 In 1937 Augur had a "torrid, though short-lived love affair" with her second cousin, Edmund Wilson.〔Reuel K. Wilson, ''To the life of the silver harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod'', p.47〕 She died in 1969 from lung cancer.〔Edmund Wilson, ''Upstate: records and recollections of northern New York'', Syracuse University Press, 1990, p.348〕 ==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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Augur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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