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Debby Applegate

American biographer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1968 · age 58

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.

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography2007

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Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1968 · age 58