It was primarily a fiction magazine until Helen Gurley Brown became editor in 1965
In 1965, Brown became editor-in-chief of 
Cosmopolitan, then a literary magazine famed for high-toned content, and 
reinvented it as a... [DOC] [TLE] Helen Gurley Brown Papers, 1938-2012 [PAR] Author and magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, 
Arkansas on ... sold to Warner Brothers at the highest price then ever paid for a 
non-fiction title.