Lady sings the blues / Billie Holiday with William Dufty.

Author/Creator:

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 author.

Publication:

New York : Avon, 1976.

Format/Description:

Book
192 pages ; 18 cm

Subjects:

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
African American women jazz singers -- Biography.
Women jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.
Women jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
African American women entertainers -- Biography.
African American musicians -- Social conditions.
African American singers -- Social conditions.
Blues (Music)
United States -- Race relations.
African American women entertainers.
African American women jazz singers.
Race relations.
Women jazz musicians.
Women jazz singers.
United States.

Form/Genre:

Biographies.

Place of Publication:

United States New York (State) New York (City).

Summary:

The autobiography of the famous jazz singer, describing her life from her childhood in the Baltimore slums to the drug addiction that tarnished her success.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1956 by Eleanora Fagan and William F. Dufty"--verso of title page.
"First Avon printing,February 1976. Fifth printing."--verso of title page.

Local notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1976

Contributor:

Dufty, William, author.
Avon Books, publisher.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

ISBN:

0380004917
9780380004911
0380409313
9780380409310

OCLC:

2291985

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