Excerpts from reviews of Suits Me                                                                        

A well-researched and exquisitely poised book, admirable for resisting the temptation to reduce Tipton to a trendy gender-crossing heroine-- the Mulan of Lounge...If Billy Tipton succeeded at becoming a man, Middlebrook prevails at a literary task as daunting: She makes Tipton a person"
                        -David Hajdu, author of Lush Life, in Entertainment Weekly

Middlebrook is light-handed...and a gifted storyteller...Suits Me has all the suspense and voyeuristic kicks of a true-crime book"
                        -John Sanchez, Chicago Reader

Intriguing, smart and disturbing...a lively account of the woman inside the man"
                        -Elaine Herscher, San Francisco Chronicle

We come to see Billy Tipton as a full human being, heroic and flawed, funny and tragic, motivated by love as well as fear."
                        - Maryanne Vollers, Salon

Middlebrook's sensitive and elegant biography of this minor artistic figure and her legacy of major secrets may bring us to a place where--dare one say it?--two genders are considered only the beginning"
                        -Judy Doenges, Seattle Times

Middlebrook's detective work provides a fascinating backdrop for her discoveries... Suits Me is one of the most interesting, skillfully done biographies in my experience"
                        -Steve Weinberg, Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

A reminder, as if one were needed, that there is nothing simple about love."
                        -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

This engrossing biography...takes up with verve and care the problem of knowing Billy Tipton. ...Middlebrook tells the compelling story not only of one artist's life but of American social history in the Midwest and Northwest from the Depression through the 1980s"
                        -Maureen McLane, Chicago Tribune

A wonderfully detailed, lively, and deeply sympathetic portrait"
                        -Julie Wheelwright, Independent (London)

She has a dry wit, too, and is never prurient. It is a considerable achievement."
                        -George Melly, Daily Telegraph (London)

Suits Me is, rightly and vividly, a portrait not only of Tipton but of those around him. ... Middlebrook is most interesting ...about secrecy."
                        -Susannah Clapp, TLS (London)

"Tipton may have spent his life fearing exposure, but he/she could not have wished for a more perceptive or sympathetic biographer than Middlebrook."
                        - Financial Times (London)

"This barely believable life-- the inspiration for Jackie Kay's prize-winning novel Trumpet is told with genuine care (Wood Middlebrook sweetly thanks the former Mrs Tiptons for their help and 'sense of the ridiculous') and without a trace of sensationalism."
                        -Observer (London)