Diane Wood Middlebrook <br/><br/>
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton 

 -  Mariner Books 
 - 348 pages 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780395957899 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>38179690 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97042466 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML417.T58 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.9066