COLUMBIA — At 2:45 on a Wednesday afternoon, with students drifting to and from class below his office window, MU history professor Steven Watts chatted on the phone with Hugh Hefner.

It's been decades since anyone has written a serious biography of Hugh Hefner (Hef's Little Black Book, co-authored by Hefner and Bill Zehme, to be published in May by HarperEntertainment, doesn't ...

While one would expect sexy details in a profile of Hugh Hefner, the interesting thing about Steven Watts’ new book is that most of his accounts are true. To assist with Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and ...

LOS ANGELES -- Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, ...