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 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. and lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, the management writer Bruce Tulgan..
She is a graduate of Amherst College and was a Sterling Fellow in American Studies at Yale University where she received her Ph.
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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 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography