{"product_id":"suits-me-the-double-life-of-billy-tipton-0395957893","title":"Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0395957893\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middlebrook, Diane Wood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865741099296,"sku":"NEW0395957893","price":14.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71ZMhnVAWeL.jpg?v=1781666772","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/suits-me-the-double-life-of-billy-tipton-0395957893","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}