Born on 18th February 1922 in Arkansas, Helen Gurley Brown is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. Helen was editor-in-chief at Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years and is known as one of the world’s most influential women.

In 1941, she graduated from Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College. During the 1950s Helen 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 nation's highest paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959 she married David Brown who produced Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, and other motion pictures.

In 1962 Brown authored the bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl. In 1966 she became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and reversed the fortunes of the failing magazine. 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. Brown claimed that women could have it all, "love, sex, and money". Due to her advocacy the liberated single woman was often referred to generically as the "Cosmo Girl". Her work played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution.