Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton

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Virago, 1999 - Cross-dressers - 326 pages
For 50 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 biography that covers the musician's early years in Oklahoma, the nights playing with Louis Armstrong's partner and his/her extraordinary relationships.

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