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Spend an Evening with Author Debby Applegate
May 10, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us at The Institute Library for an evening with the brilliant and engaging DEBBY APPLEGATE while she discusses her latest book Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Debby Applegate is a historian whose first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2007. The book was also 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.
With her second book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, she plunged from ministers to madams, from the world of virtue to the underbelly of vice. Madam was published in November, 2021, to widespread acclaim and was awarded a New York Society Library Book Award for literature that best evoke the spirit of New York City.
Born and raised in Oregon, Debby moved back east to attend Amherst College, where she met her husband, the management writer Bruce Tulgan. She was a Sterling Fellow at Yale University, where she earned her Ph.D. in American Studies, and now lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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