Alice Denham

About Alice Denham

American model and writer and former adjunct professor of English at CUNY. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1956 issue.

Denham posed for several men's magazines during her modeling career, but she is notable for her academic achievements as for her physical attributes. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina in 1949 and earned a master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1950. Several Playmates have written the text that accompanied their pictorials, but Denham is the only Playmate to have written a short story that was published in the same issue as her centerfold.

Denham pursued a career in writing and education. She's written 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 served as an adjunct professor of English from 1970 to 1980. She also held fiction-writing seminars at the University of Toronto for several years. According to The Playmate Book, she has completed her memoirs and also is writing a non-fiction book about her family's "migration from South Carolina and Scotland to Florida at the time of the Seminole Indian Wars."

Her memoir, Sleeping with Bad Boys (ISBN 1-58042-206-3), was published by Cardoza Press in October 2006.