{"product_id":"suits-me-the-double-life-of-billy-tipton","title":"Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSuits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDiane Wood Middlebrook\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780395957899\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMariner Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton | Diane Wood Middlebrook | Paperback | 9780395957899 | New | Biography 1595810","offer_id":48163700244632,"sku":"1595810","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71ZMhnVAWeL.jpg?v=1771889519","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/suits-me-the-double-life-of-billy-tipton","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}