Billy Tipton

Standard Name: Tipton, Billy

Connections

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Author summary Jackie Kay
JK 's poetry, plays, and fiction explore issues of divided, displaced, or mixed identity. Her writings probe and challenge assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality with a mixture of pain and humour. She often draws...
Intertextuality and Influence Jackie Kay
JK published her first novel, Trumpet, inspired by the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Kay, Jackie. Trumpet. Picador.
prelims
“An Interview with Jackie Kay”. Bold Type, Vol.
3
, No. 1.

Timeline

June 1998: American feminist scholar Diane Middlebrook...

Writing climate item

June 1998

American feminist scholar Diane Middlebrook published Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, a swing-era bandleader, jazz saxophonist, pianist, and transvestite.

June 1998: American feminist scholar Diane Middlebrook...

Writing climate item

June 1998

American feminist scholar Diane Middlebrook published Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, a swing-era bandleader, jazz saxophonist, pianist, and transvestite.

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