Billie Holiday: A Biography

by Meg Greene

Book Overview

Billie Holiday (1915-1959), the legendary jazz singer whose vocal stylings were deeply affecting, continues to enthrall. This biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death. At age 14, despite growing up with an absentee musician father, little schooling, a rape at 10, and jail time for prostitution, this extraordinary girl moved to New York City to find work as a dancer or singer. She soon became the toast...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313336296
• ISBN13: 9780313336294
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"