Debby Applegate is a historian and biographer based in New Haven, CT. Her first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday), won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for biography and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is a graduate of Amherst College and was a Sterling Fellow in American Studies at Yale University where she received her Ph.D. Her current project is a biography entitled Madam: The Notorious Life and Times of Polly Adler.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Debby Applegate
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: New Haven, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
Studios
Watson
Debby Applegate worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…