Suits Me: The Double Life Of Billy Tipton

The astonishing and fascinating story of jazz's greatest cross-dresser, Billy Tipton, by the acclaimed biographer of Anne Sexton. 'Packed with swing - era music lore, this well-researched biography [is] a perceptive portrayal' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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For fifty years the world - and three wives - believed that Billy Tipton, professional jazz musician, was a man. Writer Diane Wood Middlebrook lifts the lid on jazz's greatest cross-dresser in her appealing biography that covers the musician's early years in Oklahoma, the nights playing with Louis Armstrong's partner and his/her extraordinary relationships.