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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton Paperback - 1999
by Diane Wood Middlebrook
The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died. This jazz era biography evokes the rich, popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story. 60 photos.
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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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ONE SATURDAY MORNING in January 1989, an emergency call summoned paramedics to a trailer park on the outskirts of Spokane, Washington, the home of Billy Tipton, an aging white jazz musician.
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- Title Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
- Author Diane Wood Middlebrook
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition.
- Pages 326
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
- Date 1999-06-16
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780395957899 / 0395957893
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Jazz musicians - United States, Transvestites - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 32
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