Debby Applegate

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]

Biography

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 earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1998.

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. 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.

References

1. ^ 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography or Autobiography
2. ^ Pulitzer-prize winning author has Eastern Oregon ties, East Oregonian, May 9, 2007.
3. ^ About the Author page at The Most Famous Man in America official site.

External links

• Excerpt from Chapter One of The Most Famous Man in America -- Beecher's childhood in Litchfield, Connecticut.
• Works by Henry Ward Beecher at Project Gutenberg
• The Most Famous Man in America (official website)
• Review of The Most Famous Man in America on NPR's Fresh Air, June 16, 2007
• Complete List of Pulitzer Prize Winners for Biography or Autobiography
• Michael Kazin, "The Gospel of Love," The New York Times Book Review, July 16, 2006, p. 1 -- review of The Most Famous Man in America.
• Biographers International Organization (BIO) (official website)

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