Debby Applegate is the author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age and The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
11 Facts About Debby Applegate
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Debby Applegate made Beecher the subject of her dissertation in American Studies at Yale, where she received a Ph.
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Debby Applegate was raised in what she described as an "unusual religious environment": her mother, from a Mormon family, became a New Thought minister, while her father was an Irish Catholic.
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Debby Applegate has taught at Yale, Wesleyan University, and Marymount Manhattan College.
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Debby Applegate's contributions have appeared in The Journal of American History and The New York Times.
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Debby Applegate was a founding member of Biographers International Organization, and served as its initial interim president in 2009.
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Debby Applegate currently serves as the Chair of BIO's Advisory Committee.
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Debby Applegate is married to Bruce Tulgan, a business writer whose books include It's Okay To Be The Boss.
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Debby Applegate structured the resulting book as a psychological thriller.
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Debby Applegate's second book is a biography of Polly Adler, New York City's notorious Prohibition-era brothel-keeper whose 1953 memoir A House is Not a Home became a New York Times Bestseller and a 1963 film starring Shelley Winters.
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The decision to write the book came after a year of research into 1920s New York City cultural history, during which Debby Applegate discovered Adler's memoir and grew fascinated by it.