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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. Born in Eugene, Oregon in 1968, Applegate attended Amherst College as an undergraduate, where she began a two-decade fascination with famous alumnus Henry Ward Beecher, a 19th-century abolitionist minister who was later the subject of a widely publicized sex scandal. She made Beecher the subject of her dissertation in American Studies at Yale, where she received a Ph.D. in 1998. After several more years of research, Applegate published ''The Most Famous Man in America'', which was praised by critics and awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She has announced that her second book will be a biography of New York City brothel-keeper Polly Adler. ==Biography== Born in Eugene, Oregon, Applegate grew up in Clackamas, Oregon, graduating from Clackamas High School in 1985.〔(Pulitzer-prize winning author has Eastern Oregon ties ), ''East Oregonian'', May 9, 2007.〕 She was raised in what she described as an "unusual religious environment": her mother, from a Mormon family, became a New Thought minister, while her father was an Irish Catholic.〔 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.〔〔 Applegate has taught at Yale, Wesleyan University, and Marymount Manhattan College.〔(About the Author ). The Most Famous Man in America. Accessed June 8, 2013.〕 Her contributions have appeared in ''The Journal of American History'' and ''The New York Times''.〔 Applegate was a founding member of Biographers International Organization (BIO), and served as its interim president in 2009. She currently serves as the Chair of BIO's Advisory Committee. She is married to Bruce Tulgan, a business writer whose books include ''It's Okay To Be The Boss''.〔 They live in New Haven, Connecticut.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Debby Applegate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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