Verve Book Group: Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

In May, we will be discussing Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with author Debby Applegate. Open to all, but spots are limited! If you wish to reserve a book ahead of time, please contact Jacob at [email protected] to register.       About the author 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. She is a graduate of Amherst College and was a Sterling Fellow in American Studies at Yale University where she received her Ph.D. and lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, the management writer Bruce Tulgan.   Verve 55+ Living, powered by UJA-Federation of New York Supported by the Jewish Book Council