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Suits MeDiane Wood Middlebrook

Suits Me

1998326 pages
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"Suits Me is the biography of a now notorious jazz musician named Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City and Kansas City but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at age seventy-four. Billy Tipton's death in Spokane, Washington, made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because the scale of his deception - he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children - and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth." "But locked away in Billy's office…

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6 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2000
    Books on Tape · 9780736648509
  • Paperback · English · 1999
    VIRAGO PRESS LTD · 352 pages · 9781860497636
  • Hardcover · English · 1998
    VIRAGO (LITT) · 352 pages · 9781853816581
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    Suits Me the Double Life of Billy Tipton
    Houghton Mifflin Co · 9780965057950
  • Other · English · 1999
    Mariner Books · 320 pages · 9780395957899
  • Other · English · 1998
    Houghton Mifflin · 326 pages · 9780395654897
BiographyJazz musiciansTransvestitesTransvestitismeJazzMusiciCross-dressersNew York Times reviewed