Alice Denham (1927–2016)
Author of Sleeping with Bad Boys
About the Author
Alice Denham was born in Jacksonville, Florida on January 21, 1927. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina in 1949 and a master's degree in English from the University of Rochester in 1950. She moved to New York City where she modeled by day, posing at camera show more clubs and doing photo shoots for romance and detective magazines, paperback covers, comic strips, and movie posters. In 1955, her story entitled The Deal was published in the literary magazine Discovery. The story was later reprinted in the July 1956 issue of Playboy where she also appeared as a centerfold. She wrote jacket copy for publishers, acted in films including Olga's House of Shame, and modeled at industrial shows, appearing as Miss Minute Maid in 1957 and 1958. Her first novel, My Darling from the Lions, was published in 1967. Her other works included the novels Amo and Secrets of San Miguel and the memoir Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the Fifties and Sixties. She died from complications of ovarian cancer on January 27, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Birthdate
- 1927-01-21
- Date of death
- 2016-01-27
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- model
- Birthplace
- Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Florida, USA
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Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the the 1950s and 1960s by Alice Denham
Denham's memoir shows just what it was like for an intelligent and attractive woman to survive in the publishing world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In short, discrimination and sexism was rampant. All those promising young men... exposed, for what they are. Well worth reading.
Denham spent decades visiting San Miguel de Allende. This book reports on moments but even in doing that draws out generalities about the town and the people living there leading one to understand why she kept returning. A good, observant writer.
Sleeping With Bad Boys: A 1956 Playboy Model's Escapades with James Dean, Hugh Hefner, Norman Mailer and the famous writers of the 1950's beat generation by Alice Denham
I Met Alice in the Barnes and Noble at Union Square. She was wonderfull and she signed my book. She spoke regretfully of Bill Gaddis.I told her how my Uncle Bill showed up at my house with Ethel "Ethyl" Merman who used to sing while my Grandfater played the piano. Ethel just bragged about finishing with her "shortest marriage ever." She was not too happy. They were both extremely drunk and it was 3AM. Ethel sang and complained more about Borgnine. I realized after reading her book that Uncle show more Bill had just left Alice alone in the middle of the night, but his druckenness that night was normal.Later I assured her that she was better off and that she still looked tremendous... After asking her to dinner she had to add "but I am married." The offer is still open and it would be great to take them both to dinner. Alice was the first to show up in pictures in Playboy and in the same issue publish a story. She's amazing! show less
Sleeping With Bad Boys: A 1956 Playboy Model's Escapades with James Dean, Hugh Hefner, Norman Mailer and the famous writers of the 1950's beat generation by Alice Denham
I Met Alice in the Barnes and Noble at Union Square. She was wonderfull and she signed my book. She spoke regretfully of Bill Gaddis.I told her how my Uncle Bill showed up at my house with Ethel "Ethyl" Merman who used to sing while my Grandfater played the piano. Ethel just bragged about finishing with her "shortest marriage ever." She was not too happy. They were both extremely drunk and it was 3AM. Ethel sang and complained more about Borgnine. I realized after reading her book that Uncle show more Bill had just left Alice alone in the middle of the night, but his druckenness that night was normal.Later I assured her that she was better off and that she still looked tremendous... After asking her to dinner she had to add "but I am married." The offer is still open and it would be great to take them both to dinner. Alice was the first to show up in pictures in Playboy and in the same issue publish a story. She's amazing! show less
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