Helen Gurley Brown - Helen Gurley Brown, is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.Browns father died in an elevator accident when she was young, and her sister was a polio victim. She was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas.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. Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nations highest paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959 she married David Brown who was producer of Jaws, The Sting, Cocoo Helen Gurley Brown, is an author, pub...
