TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diane Wood Middlebrook
TI  - Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
SN  - 9780395957899
AV  - ML417.T58 
U1  - 305.9066 
PB  - Mariner Books
KW  - Biography
N2  - 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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