Debby Applegate
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Debby Applegate (born 1968) is an American biographer. She is the author of the The Most Famous Man in America, a biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[1]
Born in Eugene, Oregon, Applegate grew up in Clackamas, graduating from Clackamas High School in 1985. She graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1989 and earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1998.[2]
Applegate has taught American History at Yale and Wesleyan University, and currently teaches an annual master class 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 on the governing boards of the New Haven Review, the Summer Cabaret at Yale, and the Friends of the Amherst College Library.[citation needed]
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- ^ About the Author page at The Most Famous Man in America official site.
- ^ Pulitzer-prize winning author has Eastern Oregon ties, East Oregonian, May 9, 2007.
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