Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4651583
Area
Autographs
Title
Hugh Hefner
Country
Category
Keyword
Year
1998
Dimensions
25 x 20 cm
Details

Hugh Marston Hefner (Chicago, April 9, 1926) is an American magazine publisher. He is the founder of the erotic magazine Playboy. Hefner was born the son of Glenn and Grace Hefner. As a child, he attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School in West Chicago. He was an average student there, but had an IQ of 152. He profiled himself through extracurricular activities such as writing, drawing cartoons and chairing the student council. After graduating from high school in January 1944, "Hef" (a nickname he has had since childhood) was drafted by the US Army to serve in the infantry and draw comics for various Army newspapers. After his service in 1946, he began taking drawing (anatomy) classes at the Chicago Institute of Art, before enrolling at the University of Illinois at Champaign / Urbana. Hefner received his bachelor's degree at 2½ years while drawing cartoons for the Daily Illinois and running the campus magazine, initially introducing a new feature entitled Coed of the month. After leaving the University of Illinois, Hef worked as an auxiliary personnel manager for a Chicago cartoon company in 1949, and as an advertising copywriter for Carson, Pirie, Scott department store in 1950.

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