Nadine Cohodas is the author of Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change, The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss, and Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2000 and inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2002 as a classic of blues literature. She lives in Washington, D.C.
"The Queen: God bless her. Anyone who loved Dinah Washington as I
did will appreciate this book by Nadine Cohodas, which beautifully
documents the joys and sorrows of the life of this lady who was a
peer of her contemporaries Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and
Billie Holliday."
--George Wein, author of Myself Among Others and founder of the
Newport Jazz Festival "Dinah Washington died at thirty-nine, but
packed so much life and incident into every moment it's a wonder
that Nadine Cohodas could sort it out; the marital adventures alone
might have daunted a less avid biographer. Nor does she slight her
music. Dinah could make every kind of song vital and personal, no
matter the context-jazz, blues, swing, pop, r&b, or r&r.
Cohodas captures the Queen in all her obstinate spitfire
glory."
--Gary Giddins, author of Weather Bird and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful
of Dreams
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