Becoming Billie Holiday (Hardcover)

from BugsyBoog

This book in verse tells about the famous Billie Holiday's (Eleanora Fagan) rough upbringing. Each poem has its own bit of heartbreak, as Billie dealt with the abandonment by both of her parents, tough peers at school, harsh treatment by nuns in reform school, and sexual abuse from a neighborhood...

from abbylibrarian

This is a fictionalized memoir-in-verse of Billie Holiday. Beautiful, lyrical poetry and art, but I think I would have liked it better if I knew more about Billie Holiday going into it. It's somewhere between a novel and a biography. Also, the art is beautiful but the poems are all printed on pag...

from Whisper1

Found in the young adult section of the library, as I was reading this book, I felt the cover should have notations that the some of the subject matter contained adult content. No doubt about it, the life of Eleanora Fagan was exceedingly difficult. Finding her voice and learning to accept the pr...