Helen Gurley Brown (née Helen Marie Gurley; February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) [1] was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. [2]

Feb 14, 2025 · Helen Gurley Brown, American writer and editor whose upbeat, stylish publications, beginning in the mid-20th century, emphasized sexual and career independence and adventure for a large audience of young women.

Author, publisher, businesswoman, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, independent thinker, ambitious woman — Helen Gurley Brown literally rewrote the book on what modern womanhood could be. Helen makes history by becoming the first female copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding.

Aug 13, 2012 · Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the ...

Aug 17, 2012 · Brown was famous (or infamous) for bringing blunt and colorful conversations about sex and relationships into the mainstream first with her 1962 bestseller Sex and the Single Girl and then at...

Aug 13, 2012 · Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in New York at age 90. If Cosmo was her biggest legacy, it was her 1962 best-seller, Sex and the Single Girl, that...

Jun 28, 2024 · Helen Gurley Brown was a native Arkansan whose career includes landmark achievements in advertising and publishing. She was considered a spokesperson for the women ’s liberation movement and sexual revolution in the mid-twentieth century as author of the bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Jul 26, 2016 · Helen Gurley Brown, the tiny, tough and influential editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, who transformed the staid family magazine and took circulation to giddy heights, did so by lubricating...

Aug 14, 2013 · Helen Gurley Brown died Aug. 13, 2012 – just one year ago. The New York Times wrote, “She was 90 – though parts of her were considerably younger.” In 2008, she had been named the 13th...

Aug 14, 2012 · The influence of Helen Gurley Brown, the former Cosmopolitan editor who died Monday at 90, extended widely across the culture, and was deeply felt in the world of magazines.