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Debby Applegate

Debby Applegate
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, won the 2007 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.


The Literary Adventures of Polly Adler, the Algonquin Round Table’s Favorite Madam

Debby Applegate on the Exploits of the New Yorker Crowd in Prohibition-Era New York
November 2, 2021  By Debby Applegate
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