Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton - Paperback Northern Forge • Theme: Star

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and what makes it work

revealing a modest and God-fearing man with an intense appreciation for the creative process

But in their final years together

Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton - Paperback Northern Forge • Theme: StarReport copyright infringement by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Author) 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