Suits Me - The Double Life of Billy Tipton

Informationen zum Autor Diane Wood Middlebrook is the author of several volumes of poetry and criticism as well as the prizewinning bestseller Anne Sexton: A Biography. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, she is a professor emeritus at Stanford University, where she has also served as the director of the center for research on women. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diane Wood/ Davison Middlebrook
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.1999
• EAN: 9780395957899
• ISBN: 978-0-395-95789-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Jazz, Unterhaltungsmusik, Popmusik, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians, Biography / Autobiography, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz