Tracy Beach’s latest book, My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens, 1871-1953, brings to life the story of one of Colorado’s infamous madams. Beach used interviews with Evens and her employees conducted by the popular Colorado historian, Max Mazzulla, in the 1940s and early 1950s. The author supplements these firsthand accounts with notes from her own interviews with people who knew Evens, and with facts about the lives of prostitutes from well-known secondary sources. Evens,


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