Billie Holiday

"Her way with a tune, rather than the tune itself, permanently affected the way I deal with a vocal swerve, whether composing songs on the poems of Sappho or John Ashbery, operas on books of Gertrude Stein or Elliott Stein, or church litanies on Latin or French texts....[Nicholson's] book is intelligent, well written, maddeningly thorough and, for the most part, responsible..... Mr. Nicholson's book is built around Holiday's music, from which her life emerges, rather than around her life, from which the music emerges.Nicholson, Stuart is the author of 'Billie Holiday' with ISBN 9781555532482 and ISBN 1555532489.