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Suits Me The Double Life of Billy Tipton

by [Middlebrook, Diane Wood]

$19.11

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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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  • Mariner Books Brand
  • Jun 16, 1999 Pub Date:
  • 9780395957899 ISBN-13:
  • 0395957893 ISBN-10:
  • 326.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.87 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: