Helen Gurley Brown - Awards, Works, Quotes

Editor and writer, born in Green Forest, Arkansas, USA. Propelled to fame by her best-seller Sex and the Single Girl (1962), she became editor of the floundering Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965 and transformed the struggling magazine into an international journal with 14 overseas editions.

Helen Gurley Brown (b.

Brown's father died in an accident when she was young, and her sister was a polio victim.

From 1939 to 1941 she attended Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College.

After a stint in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency, she went to work for a prominent advertising agency as a secretary.

In 1962 Brown authored the bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl. During the decade of the 1960s she was an outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom and sought to provide them with role-models and a guide in her magazine. Due to her advocacy, the liberated single woman was often referred to generically as the "Cosmo Girl".

Awards

1995 - Henry Johnson Fisher Award from the Magazine Publishers of America 1996 - American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame Award

Works

Sex and the Single Girl (1962) Sex and the Office (1965) Outrageous Opinions of Helen Gurley Brown (1967) Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook (1969) Sex and the New Single Girl (1970) Having It All (1982) The Late Show: A Semi Wild but Practical Guide for Women Over 50 (1993) The Writer's Rules: The Power of Positive Prose — How to Create It and Get It Published (1998)

Lessons In Love - LP Record on How To Love A Girl & How To Love A Man (1963) Crescendo Records - GNP #604

Quotes

"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere." I really think it gets easier to flirt as you get older because you learn to listen to any man, employing the same charm and rapt attention you once reserved for seven-year-olds."