Suits Me : The Double Life of Billy Tipton
by Middlebrook, Diane W
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- ISBN 10
- 0395654890
- ISBN 13
- 9780395654897
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 507750-75
- Title
- Suits Me : The Double Life of Billy Tipton
- Author
- Middlebrook, Diane W
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0395654890
- ISBN 13
- 9780395654897
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- June 1998
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