Debby Applegate at the Brooklyn Historical Society, July 28, 2006. Photo by Carolyn A. Martin.
Debby Applegate (born 1968) is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[1]
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Born in Eugene, Oregon, Applegate grew up in Clackamas, Oregon graduating from Clackamas High School in 1985.[2] She graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1989 and was a Sterling Fellow at Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1998.
In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, The Most Famous Man in America was a finalist for the Lost Angeles Times Book Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, and won The Victorian Society in America, Metropolitan Chapter, Book Award, the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and the Frederick D. Melcher Book Award. It was named one of the best books of 2006 by The New York Times Book Review, NPR's Fresh Air, Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and American Heritage Magazine. She is currently working on 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.
Applegate has taught American History at Yale and Wesleyan University, and master classes on writing biography and memoir at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. In 2008 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Westfield State University in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal among other publications. She serves as a trustee on the governing boards of The New Haven Review, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the Yale Summer Cabaret, and the Friends of the Amherst College Library.[3] She served as the first, interim, president of Biographers International Organization (BIO), a professional association for biographers.
Applegate is married to Bruce Tulgan, an expert on generational change in the workplace and the author of It's OK To Be The Boss.
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