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Debby Applegate earned a Pulitzer Prize for writing The Most Famous Man in America, the Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, and now she turns her gaze to the Jazz Age and one of the most popular names in Manhattan: brothel owner Polly Adler. Applegate spent more than a decade researching and crafting the book. Get…
The infamous madam Polly Adler is now online with DOT CITY. She was a friend of Dorothy Parker’s, and ran a brothel for 25 years. See her page here. April 16 is the date of what would be Polly’s 100th birthday. So do something sinful this weekend… Just got word that the May issue of…