num_pages: 480
description: Using interviews conducted in the 1970s with those who knew Holiday in all stages of her short, tragic life, Clarke chronicles her life, from her childhood in the good-time houses of Baltimore through early years of fame to her tragic death at age 44. Photos.
language: English
title: Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
titlecomplete: Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
characters: Billie Holiday
genres: Music, Jazz, History, The United States Of America, Biography Memoir, Biography, Audiobook, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 333
publisher: Penguin Books