Authors’ Circle Presents Debby Applegate in Conversation with Gerald Howard, via Zoom In-Person
In conversation with Gerald Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debby Applegate discusses her new book, MADAM: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age.
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar.
Register via the library’s website calendar at www.tuxedoparklibrary.org or call the library at (845)351-2207. Registrants for the zoom presentation will receive an email shortly before the discussion with information on how to attend.
- Date:
- Sunday, February 6, 2022
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Virtual Program
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Authors' Circle
"A biography that is also a story of America bursting into the modern age, with new roles for women, new rules for couples, and parties that flowed into rooms down the hall.” - CBS Sunday Morning
“Applegate’s well written and exhaustively researched biography of Polly Adler offers unique insight into a remarkable immigrant as well as the Roaring ’20s.” - The New York Journal of Books
About the author:
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, 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.
About the interviewer:
Gerald Howard is recently retired Vice President and Executive Editor from Doubleday Books. He is a recipient of the Maxwell E. Perkins Award. His essays and reviews have appeared in Bookforum, Lit Hub, n+1, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.