With Billie by Julia Blackburn

With Billie by Julia Blackburn

During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never came out, but her recordings survived to provide the raw material for this extraordinary account of the life of America's First Lady of Jazz.

Julia Blackburn's book gives a far more complete idea of Holiday as an artist than anything else I have read * Guardian *
This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era... Blackburn's compelling tale is of whores, drug-pushers, bent policemen and crooked lawyers as well as brilliant musicians, and she brings alive everything she touches * Mail on Sunday *
This addition to the tide of Billie Holiday books is extremely welcome. Nowhere else is the context of her life and work so vividly captured * Toni Morrison *
Full of vigour and colour...Ms Blackburn's portrait of a unique artist is moving, revealing and quite unforgettable * Economist *
Julia Blackburn...has contributed much to the legacy of a remarkable human being * New Statesman *

Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses, which was broadcast in 2011.

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ISBN 13	9780099483656
ISBN 10	0099483653
Title	With Billie
Author	Julia Blackburn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2006-03-02
Number of pages	368
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