Brown, Helen Gurley

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Brown, Helen Gurley, 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.

Brown, Helen Gurley (1922– ) editor, writer; born in Green Forest, Ark. Propelled to fame by her best-seller Sex and the Single Girl (1962), she became editor of the floundering Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965 and gave it a new lease on life, as what some called the woman's counterpart to Playboy magazine.

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