Debby Applegate in 2006. Photo by Carolyn A. Martin.
Born
(1968-02-01) February 1, 1968 (age 56) Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation
Historian
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Amherst College (BA) Yale University (PhD)
Genre
Biography
Notable works
The Most Famous Man in America (2006)
Spouse
Bruce Tulgan
Debby Applegate is an American historian and biographer. She 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.
Born in Eugene, Oregon, Applegate attended Amherst College as an undergraduate, where she began a two-decade fascination with famous alumnus Henry Ward Beecher, a 19th-century abolitionist minister who was later the subject of a widely publicized sex scandal. She made Beecher the subject of her dissertation in American Studies at Yale, where she received a Ph.D. After several more years of research, Applegate published The Most Famous Man in America, which was praised by critics and awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, an account of the life and times of the notorious Manhattan brothel-keeper Polly Adler, was published in November 2021 after thirteen years of extensive research.
DebbyApplegate is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age and The Most Famous...
nation". Beecher's long career in the public spotlight led biographer DebbyApplegate to call her biography of him The Most Famous Man in America. Beecher...
a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian DebbyApplegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled...
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other through the block of marble that separates them. According to DebbyApplegate's review in The New York Times Book Review of Nicholas Fox Weber's group...
Fugitives of the Pearl (Washington: Associated Publishers, 1930). DebbyApplegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher...
• Page 4". The New York Times: 4. 1874. Retrieved 7 January 2018. Applegate, Debby (20 May 2007). "The Clarks of Cooperstown - Nicholas Fox Weber - Books...
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Wesleyan University. It includes alumni and faculty of the institution. DebbyApplegate – former faculty, American history, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography...
noted biographers and agents. The current Advisory Council includes DebbyApplegate, Taylor Branch, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow, Tim Duggan, John A. Farrell...
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men in the right places at the right times". In the Chicago Tribune, DebbyApplegate stated that "'American Creation' is one of the most enjoyable and thought-provoking...
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England Quarterly. 79 (3): 507–510. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 20474480. Applegate, Debby (2007). "Review". The Journal of American History. 93 (4): 1230–1231...
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Perverted Amativeness. H.O. Houghton. 1870. Retrieved 29 March 2022. Applegate, Debby. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher...
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