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Endpoint: Barbara Nellis



created on: 29/09/2020
by: bob (9220)
 
 

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Barbara Nellis (born ca. 1945) was an editor at Playboy magazine for 33 years from 1970 until mid 2003.

She moved to Chicago when whe was 25 because her boyfriend was there, and she took a job in Playboy's marketing department even though not knowing much about marketing "and within six months it was clear that the most interesting people were in the editorial department" as she recalls.
In all those 33 years that Barbara was there, she did a ton of different things. She was the book review editor, the music editor, the fiction editor, the letters-to-the-editor editor. In the last five years she was on staff, she wrote the copy for the two pages that were in the magazine every month called "Are You Lying Down? Hanging With Hef."
Her brother married a Playmate; he is no longer married to her, but she has three nephews from that marriage.

"It was a truly wonderful place to work," says Barbara Nellis who started at Playboy in 1970 and stayed for more than three decades, rising to the position of editor, and working with such luminaries as William Styron.
What interested her about Playboy was that "it was a completely egalitarian environment. There were people there who had MBAs, people who hadn't finished college, people who started in some lowly place and worked their way up."

After Playboy, she freelanced for magazines local and national, taught at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, lectured at Loyola University and Columbia College both in Chicago, was the Managing Editor of a start up magazine launched by the Chicago Tribune called Satisfaction, and was a senior editor at The Rotarian magazine.

Barbara Nellis is an alumna from Syracuse University where she earned a Bachelor's degree in English.

Barabara resides in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Submitted by : bob (9220)
on : 29/09/2020