| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xi, 468 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
An African-American nation -- Baltimore -- The point -- Harlem -- The first records, and triumph at the Apollo -- The Teddy Wilson era -- The street that never slept -- On the road with the big bands -- 1937-9 : strange fruit -- The war years -- Triumph and trouble -- The jailbird -- The gangster and the bassist -- The last decade begins -- The last merry-go-round : fun, fights and fame -- Intimations of mortality -- The triumphant decline of Lady Day -- The loneliest girl in the world -- Coda: The lady is an icon. |
| Summary |
A biography of the American jazz singer whose life was changed by drug abuse and alcoholism. |
| Subject |
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
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Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959. (OCoLC)fst00011114
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Singers -- United States -- Biography.
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Singers. (OCoLC)fst01119301
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
0670837717 |
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