During the Roaring '20s, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, the word "jazz" went from first meaning sex, to then dancing, and then music. You could get all three at New York madam Polly Adler's, where sex, ...

During the Roaring '20s, Polly Adler joined the sex trade just as Prohibition was getting started. In her new book, "Madam," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debby Applegate traces Adler's rise from ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Paulina Bren MADAM The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age By Debby Applegate Pearl to ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Applegate (The Most Famous Man in America) chronicles the astonishing rags-to-riches tale of Pearl “Polly” Adler (1900–1962), “the proprietress of Manhattan’s most ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. To call Polly Adler (1900-1962) the most famous madam of the Jazz Age does ...

Who was the most celebrated and condemned madam of the Jazz Age? Debby Applegate will join us to talk about her new biography of Polly Adler, “Madam.” What happened when Daniel Boone’s daughter was ...

Polly Adler gets hauled into court in Yorkville, 1935. Photo: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images “There was a club there, the Cocoanut Grove,” Debby Applegate says, half to ...

A House Is Not a Home. Polly Adler was a flashy flesh-peddler who flourished in Manhattan during the ’20s and ’30s and liked to think her establishment was the Versailles of vice. It was indeed a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debby Applegate will talk about her new book, "Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age," at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, via Zoom for the Jewish ...