Alice Denham

About Alice Denham

Alice Denham was an accomplished American model, writer, and former adjunct professor of English at CUNY. She gained recognition as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in July 1956. While she worked with numerous men's magazines throughout her modeling career, her academic accomplishments are equally remarkable. Denham graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina in 1949 and obtained a master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1950. Unlike many of her peers, she made history by writing a short story that was published alongside her centerfold in the same Playboy issue.

Denham dedicated herself to a career in writing and education. She authored several short stories and novels, including "Amo" and "My Darling from the Lions," and taught creative writing at the City College of New York, where she was an adjunct professor of English from 1970 to 1980. Additionally, she led fiction-writing seminars at the University of Toronto for several years. According to "The Playmate Book," Denham has completed her memoirs and is also working on a non-fiction project about her family's migration from South Carolina and Scotland to Florida during the time of the Seminole Indian Wars. Her memoir, titled "Sleeping with Bad Boys" (ISBN 1-58042-206-3), was published by Cardoza Press in October 2006.