Helen Gurley Brown was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman who passed away at the age of 90 due to natural causes. She is best known as the long-serving editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. Brown and her husband donated $30-million to two University Schools to develop journalism in the context of new technologies. Born 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas, she attended Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College in California before she graduated in 1941. She first worked as a secretary in 1955 for "Foote, Cone & Belding" advertising agency. In 1962 she first gained fame when she published her book “Sex and the Single Girl” which became a bestseller and then made into a film in 1964. In 1965 Brown became editor-in-chief for the magazine Cosmopolitan. She went on to publish several more books in 1970, “Sex and the Office,” “Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook” and “Sex and the New Single Girl.” She won a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications