With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day

A haunting portrait of legendary singer Billie Holiday intertwines more than 150 interviews and personal revelations into an illuminating study of Lady Day, as seen through the eyes of friends, lovers, fellow musicians, critics, producers, pimps and junkies, narcotics agents, and others, from her Baltimore childhood to her rise to fame and her tragic death. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.