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Collection Number: 04581

Collection Title: Alice Denham Papers, 1950s-1990s

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Size 3 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 70 items)
Abstract Alice Denham (1927-2016), author, adjunct professor of English at the City University of New York, and model, born in Jacksonville, Fla., and graduate of the University of North Carolina (B.A., 1949) and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1950). Denham has published numerous novels, articles, television and movie adaptations, and short stories, among them "The Deal," which was filmed in 1988. The collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, writings, and pictures of Denham. Included are copies of her novels, among them Amo (1974); Adios, Sabata (1971), a novelization based on a Western movie; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1968), based on a popular television series; and My Darling from the Lions (1968). Also included are manuscripts of three books by Denham, Shabby Genteel: A Southern Girlhood ; Terminatrix, or Equal Opportunity Mayhem; and Sleeping with the Bad Boys. Also included are articles and published and unpublished photographs of Denham, including a Playboy centerfold.
Creator Denham, Alice.
Curatorial Unit Southern Historical Collection
Language English.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Alice Denham Papers #4581, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Provenance
Received from Alice Denham of New York, N.Y., in May 1991 (Acc. 91094), May 1999 (Acc. 98366), and January 2016 (Acc. 102463).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Unprocessed, but usable.

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Alice Denham (1927-2016), author, adjunct professor of English at the City University of New York, and model, born in Jacksonville, Fla., and graduate of the University of North Carolina (B.A., 1949) and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1950). Denham has published numerous novels, articles, television and movie adaptations, and short stories, among them "The Deal," which was filmed in 1988.

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The collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, writings, and pictures of author, English professor, and model Alice Denham. Included are copies of her novels, among them Amo (1974); Adios, Sabata (1971), a novelization based on a Western movie; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1968), based on a popular television series; and My Darling from the Lions (1968). Also included are manuscripts of three books by Denham, Shabby Genteel: A Southern Girlhood ; Terminatrix, or Equal Opportunity Mayhem; and Sleeping with the Bad Boys. Also included are articles and published and unpublished photographs of Denham, including a Playboy centerfold.

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Contents list

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About 70 items.

The collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, writings, and pictures of author, English professor, and model Alice Denham. Included are copies of her novels, among them Amo (1974); Adios, Sabata (1971), a novelization based on a Western movie; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1968), based on a popular television series; and My Darling from the Lions (1968). Also included are manuscripts of three books by Denham, Shabby Genteel: A Southern Girlhood ; Terminatrix, or Equal Opportunity Mayhem; and Sleeping with the Bad Boys. Also included are articles and published and unpublished photographs of Denham, including a Playboy centerfold.

Box 1-3

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Papers

Image Folder PF-4581/1

Alice Denham, 1990s

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100 items.
Image Box IB-4581/1-2

IB-4581/1

IB-4581/2

Alice Denham photographs and printed materials

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102463

Materials include images depicting Alice Denham from different periods in her life and career. Also included are photograph albums and other images depicting Denham's early life and extended family.

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Photographs (PF-4581/1, IB-4581/1-2).

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