Billie Holiday: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

by Meg Greene (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2006

  $48.79

  Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was a legendary jazz singer. At age 14, despite growing up with an absentee musician father, 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. This biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death.