Helen E. Augur (died 1969) was an American journalist and historical writer.
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.