Based on unrivaled access to archival interviews with those who knew her at every stage of her life, this is the most revealing biography of the incomparable Lady Day Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four