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Title: Diane Middlebrook, Stanford professor and legendary biographer, dies at 68
Post by: Butterfly on December 16, 2007, 08:03:13 PM
Post by: Butterfly on December 16, 2007, 08:03:13 PM
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.
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.
Title: Re: Diane Middlebrook, Stanford professor and legendary biographer, dies at 68
Post by: Hypatia on December 18, 2007, 11:32:57 PM
Post by: Hypatia on December 18, 2007, 11:32:57 PM
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.