Polly Adler(1900-1962)
- Writer
Owned and operated New York's best-known bordello in the years
preceding World War II. Adler later had best selling book entitled 'A
House Is Not a Home' (Rinehart & Co., 1953), ghost-written by
Virginia Faulkner. Adler used
fictitious names to chronicle her years as a 'madam' to gangsters,
police, and upper-income bracket gentlemen looking for relaxation in
the company of attractive young women.
