Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780395957899

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by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 326

Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6 IN

Illustrated: Yes

Publication Date: March 01, 2010

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