Debby applegate

  • Debby Applegate is an American historian and biographer.
  • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America, comes the rollicking story of Polly Adler, Manhattan's most notorious madam.
  • Debby Applegate is an American historian and biographer.

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    Debby Applegate is an American biographer. She is the author of the The Most Famous Man in America, a biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

    Born in Eugene, Oregon, Applegate grew up in Clackamas, graduating from Clackamas High School in She graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in and earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in

    Applegate has taught American History at Yale and Wesleyan University, and currently teaches an annual master class on writing biography and memoir at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and the Wall SDebby Applegate is an American biographer. She is the author of the The Most Famous Man in America, a biography of Henry Ward Beec
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    Debby Applegate

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    Discipline:Literature – nonfiction

    Region:New Haven, CT

    Debby Applegate is a historian and biographer based in New Haven, CT. Her first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday), won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is a graduate of Amherst College and was a Sterling Fellow in American Studies at Yale University where she received her Ph.D. Her current project is a biography entitled Madam: The Notorious Life and Times of Polly Adler.

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    Debby Applegate

    Debby Applegate is a historian and obsessive reader whose first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the pris Prize for biography in and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, and was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, NPR&#;s Fresh Air, the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and American Heritage Magazine. 

    The Most Famous Man in America was an unconventional portrait of an unconventional minister and antislavery activist whose celebrity rivalled Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln. With her second book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, she plunged from the world of virtue to the underbelly of vice. It took thirteen years of fördjupning in the archives to research and write and – to give fair warning to all readers &#; fryst vatten much raci