Cosmopolitan (magazine) as a "bland" and boring magazine by critics. Cosmopolitan's circulation continued to decline for another decade until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965. Helen Gurley Brown changed the entire trajectory of the magazine during her time as editor. Brown remodeled and re-invented it as a magazine for modern single career women. Completely transforming the old bland Cosmopolitan magazine into a racy, contentious and well known, successful magazine. As the editor for 32 years, Brown spent this time using the magazine as an outlet to erase stigma around unmarried women not only having sex, but also enjoying it. Known
Gurley Brewer Gurley Brewer Gurley Brewer (1866-1919) was an American attorney, newspaper publisher, and political activist. Brewer is best remembered as the editor of the "Indianapolis World," one of the first African American newspapers in the state of Indiana. Gurley Brewer was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1866, the son of Hubbard Brewer, a barber, and his wife. The family moved to the town of Vincennes when Gurley was a small boy. Brewer was a graduate of Wilberforce University, a historically black college affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in Wilberforce, Ohio. He graduated with honors in 1888. A talented