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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. 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. She died in 1969 from lung cancer.