Suits Me
The Double Life Of Billy Tipton
Diane Wood 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.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780395957899 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography; Music |
| Copyright Date | 1998 |
| Publication Date | 01-Jun-99 |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Biography & Autobiography / General; Jazz musicians; Jazz Musicians/ United States/ Biography; Transvestites; Transvestites/ United States/ Biography |
| BookID | 12679 |
