Suits Me by Diane Wood Middlebrook (1999, Paperback) 
Suits Me by Diane Wood Middlebrook (1999, Paperback)

 
Suits Me by Diane Wood Middlebrook (1999, Paperback)

Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 1999-06-16
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0395957893
ISBN-13: 9780395957899
Product ID: EPID402437
Description: A biography of Billy Tipton, a jazz musician who was born female but who lived as a man for nearly five decades. Incorporating photographs, program notes, and other memorabilia from Tipton's personal archives, this biography pays attenti...
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Synopsis
A biography of Billy Tipton, a jazz musician who was born female but who lived as a man for nearly five decades. Incorporating photographs, program notes, and other memorabilia from Tipton's personal archives, this biography pays attention to issues of gender identity and reveals the many clues that Tipton scattered in her performances regarding her double life.

Details
Publication Date:1999-06-16
Editor:Peter Davison

Size
Length:320 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:16.0 oz

Publisher's Note
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.

Industry Reviews
"A reminder, as if one were needed, that there is nothing simple about love."
Washington Post Book World - Jonathan Yardley (05/31/1998)

"'Suits Me' is so fixated on the technical aspects of sex...that it fails to examine the larger, and far more interesting, issue of our selective blindness when it comes to love."
New York Times Book Review - Holly Brubach (06/28/1998)

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