[PAR] [TLE] Diane Middlebrook [SEP] Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook (April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007) was an American biographer, poet, and teacher.  She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University.  She is best known for critically acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath (along with Plath's husband Ted Hughes), and jazz musician Billy Tipton.  Middlebrook was preparing a biography of the Roman poet Ovid, to be published in 2008.  Her death brought that project to a close. [PAR] [TLE] Billy Tipton [SEP] William Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz musician and bandleader.  He is also notable for the postmortem discovery that, although he lived his adult life as a man, he was assigned female at birth.
[PAR] [TLE] Diane Middlebrook [ SEP ] Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook ( April 16 , 1939 – December 15 , 2007 ) was an American biographer , poet , and teacher . She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University . She is best known for critically acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath ( along with Plath 's husband Ted Hughes ) , and jazz musician Billy Tipton . Middlebrook was preparing a biography of the Roman poet Ovid , to be published in 2008 . Her death brought that project to a close . [PAR] [TLE] Billy Tipton [ SEP ] William Lee Tipton ( December 29 , 1914 – January 21 , 1989 ) was an American jazz musician and bandleader . He is also notable for the postmortem discovery that , although he lived his adult life as a man , he was assigned female at birth .
Who wrote a biography of the jazz musician that lived his adult life as a man, but was assigned female at birth?
Who wrote a biography of the jazz musician that lived his adult life as a man , but was assigned female at birth ?
Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook
Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook