Books by Debby Applegate
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate
🏆 Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe's charismatic preacher brother, Henry, who became internationally famous for his spectacular sermons on the "gospel of love"—before a sex scandal brought everything tumbling down. As Applegate writes, "what Beecher brought to American culture in an era of bewildering change and fratricidal war was unconditional love so deep and so wide that the entire country could feel his warmth, like it or not."
Interviews where books by Debby Applegate were recommended
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts -
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo -
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig -
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage -
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert -
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
