Description
Title: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Author: Diane Wood Middlebrook
ISBN: 9780395957899
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 326
Condition: Used Copy
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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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