Helen Gurley Brown
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Dear Pussycat:
Some of us find it easier to say in a letter whatever it is we want to express -- love, rage, outrage, affection, resentment, enthusiasm, a request to do a chore -- than we do person to person or even phone to phone. I've been writing letters, somewhat successfully I think, since I was eight years old. I got President Franklin Roosevelt to write to my wheelchair-bound (from polio) sister by dropping him a line at the White House. Some...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 1962 blockbuster that took on “one of the most absurd (if universal) myths of our time: that every girl must be married” (The New York Times).
Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of Cosmopolitan for thirty-two years, is considered one of the most influential figures of Second Wave feminism. Her first book sold millions of copies, became a cultural phenomenon, and ushered in a whole new way...
Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of Cosmopolitan for thirty-two years, is considered one of the most influential figures of Second Wave feminism. Her first book sold millions of copies, became a cultural phenomenon, and ushered in a whole new way...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Helen Gurley Brown is the original Cosmo girl: a savvy, attractive woman with a clear idea of what she wants and the confidence she'll get it. In her decades as a publishing superstar, she has assigned and edited thousands of pieces by writers of all kinds. She gave them all the same straightforward advice - and now she shares it with everyone who wants to write clear, effective, colorful, memorable prose. Breezy, witty, and friendly, The Writer's...