Suits ME: the Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Middlebrook
The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden, five successive "wives" with whom Billy lived as a man, and three children who he "fathered." As Billy Tipton herself said, "Some people might think I'm a freak or a hermaphrodite. I'm not. I'm a normal person. This has been my choice." This jazz-era biography evokes the rich popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story.
Diane Middlebrook was a biographer, poet, and teacher from the United States. She spent many years at Stanford University teaching feminist studies. Middlebrook is best known for her bestselling Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Billy Tipton biographies. In 2007, she passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780395957899 |
| ISBN 10 | 0395957893 |
| Title | Suits ME: the Double Life of Billy Tipton |
| Author | Diane Middlebrook |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 1999-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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