# Billie Holiday

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/john-szwed/billie-holiday/9780143107965

![Billie Holiday](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-books/john-szwed/billie-holiday_978-01-4310-796-5.jpg?v=2026-06-11%2006%3A39%3A15)

- Book: [Billie Holiday](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-szwed/billie-holiday) ([Billie Holiday.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-szwed/billie-holiday.md))
- Authors: [John Szwed](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-szwed)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-796-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-03-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I’ve read.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording...