Diane Middlebrook, Stanford professor and legendary biographer, dies at 68

[Butterfly]

Diane Middlebrook, Stanford professor and legendary biographer, dies at 68

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/middlebrook-010908.html
BY CYNTHIA HAVEN
December 16 2007

Excerpt: Suits Me, a finalist for a Lambda Foundation Literary Award
and a bestseller on amazon.com, was the offbeat story of Billy Tipton,
a female jazz musician who, as a man, married five times and adopted
children. The wives, and everyone else, were unaware of the disguise.
(Said one of his sons, He will always be Dad to me.) Londons
Financial Times wrote, Tipton may have spent his life fearing
exposure, but he/she could not have wished for a more perceptive or
sympathetic biographer than Middlebrook.

[Hypatia]

I read that book Suits Me and it was absolutely clueless about TS. That book does not have a good reputation among TS readers. It treats Mr. Tipton as nothing but a crossdressing woman.