Helen Gurley Brown, Iconic Editor, Dead at 90

Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazines, died today at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She was 90 years old.

From her 1962 bestselling book, Sex and The Single Girl, to urging women to be smart about their finances, to her decades of work behind Cosmo, Gurley Brown will be remembered among the most influential editors of all time.

“It would be hard to overstate the importance to Hearst of her success with Cosmopolitan, or the value of the friendship many of us enjoyed with her,” commented Frank Bannack, CEO of Hearst, in an announcement to colleagues.

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