Research files, including interview audio recordings and transcripts; notes; correspondence; clippings; photographs; photocopies; and other materials accumulated by Diane Middlebrook in preparation for writing Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Also includes draft versions, page proofs, and a signed first edition of the book; correspondence with publisher Houghton-Mifflin; clippings of reviews and other publicity for the book; and correspondence received by Middlebrook in response to the book.

Diane Wood Middlebrook (1939-2007), biographer and longtime professor of English at Stanford University, was educated at the University of Washington (A.B., 1961) and Yale University (M.A, 1962; Ph.D., 1968). She joined the Department of English at Stanford in 1966 and remained there until 2002, when she left to focus on her writing full-time. Although she also published literary criticism and poetry, Middlebrook is best known for her biographies: Anne Sexton, A Biography (1991), Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton (1998), and Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage (2003).

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Audio recordings in box 16 are closed pending reformatting. Research files in box 17 are restricted until 2059. Other materials are open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.