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"The 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."

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Diane Middlebrook is now writing the life of Billy Tipton . . . It should be the paradigmatic biography of our time. Newsweek

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Diane Wood Middlebrook is the author of several volumes of poetry and criticism as well as the prizewinning bestseller Anne Sexton: A Biography. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, she is a professor emeritus at Stanford University, where she has also served as the director of the center for research on women.

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