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- catalog abstract ""Suits Me is the biography of a now notorious jazz musician named Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City and Kansas City but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at age seventy-four. Billy Tipton's death in Spokane, Washington, made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because the scale of his deception - he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children - and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth." "But locked away in Billy's office closet lay files of clippings and photographs documenting the transformation of Billy from she to he, as well as a legacy of annotated comic routines, musical arrangements, and program notes. These revealed to Diane Wood Middlebrook how Billy scattered clues and riddles night after night about the drag she wore. These hints were so bold that they helped conceal Billy's secrets." "With brio and pathos, Suits Me tells the life story of this brilliant deceiver, who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10674229.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Suits Me is the biography of a now notorious jazz musician named Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City and Kansas City but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at age seventy-four. Billy Tipton's death in Spokane, Washington, made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because the scale of his deception - he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children - and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth." "But locked away in Billy's office closet lay files of clippings and photographs documenting the transformation of Billy from she to he, as well as a legacy of annotated comic routines, musical arrangements, and program notes. These revealed to Diane Wood Middlebrook how Billy scattered clues and riddles night after night about the drag she wore. These hints were so bold that they helped conceal Billy's secrets." "With brio and pathos, Suits Me tells the life story of this brilliant deceiver, who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Billy Tipton's Family Tree xii -- Part I Beginnings: 1889-1932 -- Part II From Dorothy to Billy: 1933-1940 -- Part III The Impersonator: 1940-1948 -- Part IV Rising: 1949-1958 -- Part V Settling: 1958-1989.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-316) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 326 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Suits me.".
- catalog identifier "0395654890".
- catalog isFormatOf "Suits me.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog relation "Suits me.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.9/066 21".
- catalog subject "Jazz musicians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "ML417.T58 M53 1998".
- catalog subject "Tipton, Billy, 1914-1989.".
- catalog subject "Transvestites United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Billy Tipton's Family Tree xii -- Part I Beginnings: 1889-1932 -- Part II From Dorothy to Billy: 1933-1940 -- Part III The Impersonator: 1940-1948 -- Part IV Rising: 1949-1958 -- Part V Settling: 1958-1989.".
- catalog title "Suits me : the double life of Billy Tipton / Diane Wood Middlebrook.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".