Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy TiptonHoughton Mifflin, 1998 - 326 páginas "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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... asked for , despite the proof of adultery which gave G.W. his strongest legal claim against her . Perhaps the court took a serious view of Reggie's countercharges that G.W. was not only an adulterer himself but a wife - beater as well ...
... asked for , despite the proof of adultery which gave G.W. his strongest legal claim against her . Perhaps the court took a serious view of Reggie's countercharges that G.W. was not only an adulterer himself but a wife - beater as well ...
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... asked Pierson to join the band , and Pierson gave up sleeping most nights , catching the bus to Joplin in time to be on the bandstand from nine until the last customer left the floor , catching the bus home to Granby at six - thirty in ...
... asked Pierson to join the band , and Pierson gave up sleeping most nights , catching the bus to Joplin in time to be on the bandstand from nine until the last customer left the floor , catching the bus home to Granby at six - thirty in ...
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... asked for Dorothy Tipton . The woman who answered said , “ Resting , can't be disturbed . " Mother got riled up and said , " This is the number Dorothy gave for an emergency . Who are you ? " The other person said she was his mother ...
... asked for Dorothy Tipton . The woman who answered said , “ Resting , can't be disturbed . " Mother got riled up and said , " This is the number Dorothy gave for an emergency . Who are you ? " The other person said she was his mother ...
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But Who Was She? 18891928 | 13 |
Kansas City 19291932 | 33 |
19331940 | 47 |
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