Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton

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.

Author: Diane Wood Middlebrook
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/16/1999
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780395957899
ISBN10: 0395957893
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz
- Biography & Autobiography | Music