1900
Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (died 1962)
Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (died 1962)
Polly Adler
American madam and author (1900–1962)
- Born
- 1900
Pearl "Polly" Adler was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with Doubleday.