
Paul Alexander
PAUL ALEXANDER has published eight books, among them Rough Magic, a biography of Sylvia Plath, and Salinger, a biography of J. D. Salinger that was the basis of a documentary that appeared on American Masters on PBS, Netflix, and HBO. His nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, New York, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone. He teaches at Hunter College in New York.
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In an excerpt from his book “Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year,” author Paul Alexander writes about the moving performance by Billie Holiday and Lester Young on “The Sound of Jazz” TV program in 1957.