Jennifer Scanlon and the paperback version of "Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown."
Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in New York City at the age of 90 amid the 50th anniversary year of her international bestseller Sex and the Single Girl. Decades after Brown wrote the book about making the most of single life, Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin’s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Gender and Women’s Studies, wrote the book on Brown.
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown (Oxford University Press, 2009. Penguin, paperback edition, 2010), traces the life of the maverick diva of New York publishing, from her humble, working-class beginnings to her ascent to the pantheon of 20th century women.
In demand for her breadth and depth of knowledge on all things Brown, Scanlon did a dozen interviews in as many hours, with media outlets ranging from the BBC to People magazine, and the Financial Times to Women’s Wear Daily. Scanlon kindly also took time to share some thoughts about Helen Gurley Brown with the Bowdoin Daily Sun.
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