Suits me : the double life of Billy Tipton : research and production records, 1897-1998 (inclusive), 1989-1998 (bulk).

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Suits me : the double life of Billy Tipton : research and production records, 1897-1998 (inclusive), 1989-1998 (bulk).

Research files, including audio recordings and transcripts of interviews; notes; correspondence; clippings; photographs; photocopies; and other materials accumulated by Middlebrook in preparation for writing Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Also includes draft versions, page proofs, and a signed first edition of the book; correspondence with publisher Houghton-Mifflin; clippings of reviews and other publicity for the book; and correspondence received by Middlebrook in response to the book.

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Tipton, Billy, 1914-1989

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Billy Lee Tipton, born Dorothy Lucille Tipton on December 29, 1914, was an American jazz musician and bandleader who lived as a man for nearly 50 years. Tipton died on January 21, 1989. From the description of Billy Tipton photographs, circa 1950s. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 614308336 ...

Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007

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Diane Wood Middlebrook was a longtime English professor at Stanford University. In 2002 she left Stanford as Professor Emerita to focus on her writing. She was the author of Anne Sexton, A Biography; Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton; and Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage; among other works. From the description of Suits me : the double life of Billy Tipton : research and production records, 1897-1998 (inclusive), 1989-1998 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 46509...