Helen Gurley Brown: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jennifer Scanlon, Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown (2009).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Aug 09, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 14, 2026
First paragraph modernization. Apr 23, 2024
Add new Web site: CNN - Helen Gurley Brown's complicated feminist legacy. Oct 18, 2021
Changed "Texas Women's University" to "Texas Woman's University" and "Woodbury Business College" to "Woodbury's Business College." Aug 06, 2019
Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Biography of Helen Marie Gurley Brown. Apr 11, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Biography of Helen Gurley Brown. Apr 11, 2017
Added photograph. Feb 25, 2013
Changed the end of her tenure as editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine from "1996" to "1997." Sep 06, 2012
Updated to reflect her death. Aug 13, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Helen Gurley Brown. Nov 01, 2011
Article updated to include Helen Gurley Brown's publication of I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts. Jan 13, 2010
Photo of Brown (1975) added. Jan 13, 2010
Biography by Jennifer Scanlon added. Jul 24, 2009
Article revised. Nov 18, 1999
New article added. Jun 02, 1999
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