The life story of jazz singer Billie Holiday told in her own words. Holiday writes candidly of sexual abuse, confinement to institutions, heroin addiction, and the struggles of being
African American before the rise of the
Civil Rights Movement. According to an article in the
San Francisco Chronicle, Dufty's aim was "to let Holiday tell her story her way.
Fact checking wasn't his concern." Since its publication, the book has been criticized for factual inaccuracies. ==References==