,Brown, Helen Gurley1922╨writer and editorBorn on February 18, 1922, in Green Forest, Arkansas, Helen Gurley grew up there, in Little Rock, and from 1932 in Los Angeles. After attending public schools she was a student at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women╒s University) in 1939╨1941 and at Woodbury Business College in 1942. For several years she held secretarial positions with Music Corporation of America, the William Morris Agency, and other firms. In 1948 she became a copywriter for the advertising firm of Foote, Cone & Belding. Her ability to write bright, arresting prose enabled her to progress rapidly in that field, and she had already won two of her three Frances Holmes Advertising Copywriters awards when she moved over to the Kenyon & Eckhardt agency as copywriter and account executive in 1958. In September 1959 Gurley married David Brown, a motion picture producer. She left advertising in 1962 when her first book, Sex and the Single Girl, became an immediate and controversial best-seller. Her advice to young single women on matters of career, fashion, love, entertainment, and other topics, expressed in her singularly sprightly prose, emphasized the positive benefits of unmarried life and provoked wide comment and some criticism by recognizing that sex was a part of that life. Sex and the Office, 1964, continued in the same vein, and for a time she conducted a syndicated newspaper advice column, ╥Woman Alone,╙ as well. In 1965 Brown was named editor of the venerable but foundering Cosmopolitan magazine. Drawing on ideas she and her husband had developed earlier for an unrealized magazine project, she quickly remade Cosmopolitan into a splashy, upbeat magazine aimed at the young women, single or married, who had formed the audience for Sex and the Single Girl. Cosmopolitan became more daring graphically╤a movement that culminated in a highly publicized nude male centerfold spread in 1972╤and a trend-setter in youthful lifestyle. Circulation and advertising revenues shot upward as the new format proved extremely popular with its intended audience. Helen Gurley Brown also wrote Helen Gurley Brown╒s Outrageous Opinions, 1966, Helen Gurley Brown╒s Single Girl╒s Cookbook, 1969, Sex and the New Single Girl, 1970, Having It All, 1982, and The Late Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50, 1993. She received the New York Women in Communication Award in 1985 and established the Helen Gurley Brown Research Professorship at Northwestern University. She was inducted into the Publisher's Hall of Fame in 1988. Ästyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ - !I B 5¬ C !I ┐ !I ╓ !I 1 !I C !I ─ 5¬ ┼ !I !I !I Ä !I Ü !I !I !I " !I . !I H 5¬ I !I g !I Å !I û !I ┬ !I ╩ !I σ !I φ !I · !I !I M !I link `
