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Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In
With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew
Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers
and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories
of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex,
contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who — contrary to myth —
knew what she wanted and what really mattered to her. Julia
Blackburn has pieced together an oral history of thi
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Julia Blackburn is the author of three books of nonfiction,
Charles Waterton, The Emperor’s Last Island, and
Daisy Bates in the Desert, and of two novels, The
Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of
which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in
England.
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