Helen Gurley Brown
Journalist and Author
Friends must find courage to hold addicts accountable...end of my drinking days, I was living in London. My marriage was on the rocks and I had a deadline to write a piece for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo. I had an attack of writers' block. The closer I came to when the article had to go into the... In this article: Bernie Madoff, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Silver, Argosy University, and Helen Gurley Brown |
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 24, 2009
'Having it all' promise putting women in pressure cooker
...that the many magazines extolling the joys of housework were at the time in fact edited by men (and fooling no one). Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" (1962), "Our Bodies, Ourselves" (first available in 1970) and Betty...
In this article: Gail Collins, Sex and the Single Girl, Ms. Magazine, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Gloria Steinem
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The Daily Campus | October 21, 2009
Film examines the history of beauty
...with the many fashion shifts such as former model Iman, Naomi Wolf, the author of The Beauty Myth, and Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown offer more insight into the American beauty culture. The desire to be beautiful extends beyond...
In this article: IP Address, Cosmopolitan, Helena Rubenstein, Madame C.J. Walker, and Beauty Myth
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International Herald Tribune | October 09, 2009
Room for Debate: Why We Love the Shoes That Hurt Us
...trouble walking in them. The Risks, the Rewards Jennifer Scanlon is author of "Bad Girls Go Everywhere," a biography of Helen Gurley Brown, and a professor of gender and women's studies at Bowdoin College. A daring group of researchers...
In this article: Louisa May Alcott, London, Alexander McQueen, Paris, American Podiatric Medical Association, Migraine, Flat feet, and Sprain
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Salon | September 28, 2009
Obama camp was source for Edwards haircut story
...in the practice myself. Her essay is a consideration of three books (Jennifer Scanlon's biography of Helen Gurley Brown, Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" and Elizabeth Edwards' autobiography, which reveals, among other things,...
In this article: John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Barack Obama, Roman Polanski, Elizabeth Edwards, and David Letterman
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True/Slant | August 26, 2009
Only A Mother Like Caitlin Flanagan Can Know What Real Love Is
...to questions about any "moral qualms" she might have in encouraging single women to date married men. Brown announced, "I'm afraid I have a cavalier attitude about wives. " Flanagan can't allow that. She has been marriage's champion...
In this article: Caitlin Flanagan, John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Sex and the Single Girl, and Atlantic
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Jezebel - Gawker's friendlier side | August 12, 2009
Sex & The Single Homewrecker: Caitlin Flanagan Slams Rielle Hunter, Helen Gurley Brown [Flantagonism]
...with the opposite sex could be had through manipulation. Flanagan might not agree with the "fulfilling" part, but like Brown, she seems to see an adulterous affair not as a choice made by both a man and a woman, but as a...
In this article: Caitlin Flanagan, Rielle Hunter, John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, God, Sex and the Single Girl, and Surgery
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scotsman.com - Books | July 03, 2009
Book review: Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
...TV a from Mary Tyler Moore to Sex and the City. But the book is no hagiography. Miserly to the end (Brown recycled presents for staff), she dieted to deprivation. She didn't do children (her stepson who died of a drug addiction was one of...
In this article: Sex and the Single Girl, Hearst Corporation, Self-help, Chocolate chip, Cosmopolitan, The Feminine Mystique, and Jacqueline Susann
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Times Online | June 21, 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon
...and attained when she was 37 and ready to settle down with a man who was as a) rich and b) as smart as she was. It was Brown's idea that she write the book, reasoning that there must be a market for it, and he was damn right. As this book...
In this article: Sex and the Single Girl, Cosmo Girl, Cosmopolitan, Arkansas, Gender studies, Zeitgeist, Alligator, and The Sunday Times
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Slate Magazine | May 12, 2009
Jennifer Scanlon's biography of Helen Gurley Brown.
...Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 6:50 AM ET Sprawled across the cover of Jennifer Scanlon's new biography of Helen Gurley Brown is Brown herself, leaning back awkwardly on a heap of pillows in a tight, leopard-skin blouse and gold...
In this article: Lorelei Lee, Sex and the Single Girl, Cosmopolitan, David Brown, AIDS, Playboy, and Sugar
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New York Times | April 21, 2009
Books of The Times: Helen Gurley Brown: The Original Carrie Bradshaw
...art department at Cosmopolitan, shortly after she took over as editor of the magazine in 1965. Helen Gurley Brown with her husband, David Brown. Ms. Brown and the publisher John Mack Carter, left, at a 1990 party celebrating her 25th...
In this article: Cosmopolitan, Betty Friedan, Sex and the Single Girl, David Brown, and Chocolate chip
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Helen Gurley Brown (b. February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas), is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.
Brown was born to parents Cleo and Ira Marvin Gurley. Her mother was born in Alpena, Arkansas and died in 1980. Brown's father was once appointed Commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas after Brown's father won an election to the Arkansas state legislature. He died in an elevator accident on June 18, 1932 In 1937, Helen, Mary, and their mother moved to Los Angeles, California. A few months after moving, Mary contracted polio. While in California, Brown attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School.
After graduation, the family moved to Warm Springs, Georgia. Brown attended one semester at Texas State College for Women and then moved back to California to attend Woodbury Business College. She graduated in 1941. In 1947, Cleo and Mary moved to Osage, Arkansas while Brown stayed in Los Angeles.
After working at the William Morris Agency, Music Corporation of America, and Jaffe talent agencies she went to work for Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency as a secretary. Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nation's highest paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959 she married David Brown who was producer of Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, and other motion pictures.
In September, 2008, she was named the 13th most powerful American over the age of 80 by Slate Magazine.
- Birth Date:
- February 18, 1922
- Birthplace:
- Green Forest, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States
- Gender:
- Female
- Ethnicity:
- English-American
- Spouse:
- David Brown
- Occupation:
- International Editor, Cosmopolitan
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