Suits Me The Double Life of Billy Tipton

Name: Suits Me The Double Life of Billy Tipton
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ISBN: 9780395957899

ISBN-10: 0395957893

ISBN-13: 9780395957899

Edition: 1998

Authors: Diane Wood Middlebrook

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 1.11" wide x 1.11" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.990



List of Illustrations


Billy Tipton's Family Tree


Preface


Author's Note



Beginnings: 1889-1932



Born Naked (21 January 1989)



But Who Was She? (1889-1928)



Kansas City (1929-1932)



From Dorothy to Billy: 1933-1940



The "In" Sex (1933-1934)



Graduation (1934-1935)



The Playboy (1935-1938)



Reggie's Daughter (1937-1940)



The Impersonator: 1940-1948



Self-Made Man (1940-1943)



Swinging (1943-1946)



The Son-in-Law (1946-1949)



Rising: 1949-1958



Mobility (1949-1953)



Making It (1954-1958)



Settling: 1958-1989



Man's World (1958-1961)



Family Man (1962-1979)



Out and Down (1980-1986)



The End (1986-1989)


Notes


References


Index