Bessie Smith
by Jackie Kay · 1997
The author presents the great blues singer, from her early days with Ma and Pa Rainer in the Moses Stokes Travelling Show, through her disastrous marriage and various lesbian affairs to her wild lifestyle on the road in her yellow Pullman railroad car.
SingersBiographyJazz singersHockney, david, 1937-Painting, modern, 20th centuryPainting, britishHomosexuality and artFriends and associatesGay artists