Lady Sings the Blues (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William Dufty, Eleanora Fagan
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1915–1956
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Billie Holiday, Sadie Fagan, Clarence Fagan, Louis McKay, Lester “Prez” Young, Count Basie, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Segregation or integration, Racism, Sexism, Autobiography, Substance abuse, Singing or singers, Jazz music, Drug addiction or addicts, Fame
- Locales: New York, NY, Detroit, MI, Kentucky, Philadelphia, PA, Antwerp, Belgium, Baltimore, MD, Berlin, Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark, Kansas City, KS, Montreal, Canada
Form and Content
Lady Sings the Blues is a very loosely constructed autobiography arranged in chronological order but leaving many gaps. It is based on Billie Holiday’s reminiscences as told to collaborator William Dufty, and as such is largely anecdotal. Holiday had a highly sociable, extroverted nature, and all her reminiscences are about the people she knew. Although her anecdotes are about other people, they reveal her own affectionate, generous, emotional personality. She did not relate to people in an impersonal manner: She either loved or hated them. Although...
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