About me
Debby Applegate is a historian whose first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Her second book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, was a New York Times Editors' Choice for Best Books of 2021, and won an Earphones Award for best audiobooks of 2021. She holds Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband, business writer Bruce Tulgan.