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| 100 | 1 | _aDiane Wood Middlebrook | |
| 245 | 1 | _aSuits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton | |
| 260 | _bMariner Books | ||
| 300 | _a348 pages | ||
| 520 | _aThe 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. | ||
| 650 | _aBiography | ||
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