photo by Jo Chattman
Brooke Hauser is a longtime journalist. She is currently editing and writing for The Boston Globe. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper in Northampton, Massachusetts — the first woman to be in that role on a permanent basis since the paper’s founding in 1786.
She is also the author of two books: Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman, winner of the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Nonfiction Book, and The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, a winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award.
Books by Brooke
ENTER HELEN
The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
In this retro romp that will appeal to fans of Mad Men, journalist Brooke Hauser reveals how a self-proclaimed “mouseburger” from the Ozarks became one of the most influential women of her time.
“Brown deserves the biography that Brooke Hauser has written, Enter Helen. It is entertaining, thoughtfully researched and — the ultimate encomium where HGB was concerned — fun.” —The Washington Post
Recent Writing
I was proud of my job. My kids were, too.
What would I do when I lost it?
The Boston Globe Magazine, February 2021
My daughter wasn’t having it. She didn’t want to go to day care. What she wanted was what any 4-year-old would want on a snowy day: to stay home and watch cartoons. When I nixed that plan and told her Mama had to work — I needed to create a syllabus for a college writing class I would soon be teaching — Sydney clenched her little fists. “I! Said! Nooooooo!” she wailed. “You work for ME!”