Helen Gurley Brown
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Helen Gurley Brown 1922-, American writer and editor, b. Green Forest, Ark. In 1962 she published the best-selling Sex and the Single Girl (1962); its sequel Sex and the New Single Girl appeared in 1970. From 1965 to 1997 she was editor of Cosmopolitan, reviving the faltering magazine by directing it toward single young career women. The magazine under her guidance charted the accomplishments and aspirations of these women in both their public and private lives.
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