An NPR “Books We Love” Pick of the Year A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “[A] radiant, rich, no-stone-unturned biography.”—Paula J. Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.

An NPR “Books We Love” Pick of the Year A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “[A] radiant, rich, no-stone-unturned biography.”—Paula J. Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.