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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

“Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.”— Gloria Steinem

 

“In her fascinating book about tobacco heiress Doris Duke, whose net worth had ballooned to $1.2 billion by her death in 1993, Bingham gets at how inherited wealth liberates women but also burdens them.”— The National Book Review, "5 HOT BOOKS"

 

“In this illuminating biography, Bingham (The Blue Box) chronicles the life of philanthropist and tobacco heiress Doris Duke (1912–1993)... Bingham is a generous biographer in this exacting, measured work.”— Publishers Weekly

 

“Bingham adds a trove of new material to the Duke oeuvre, including revealing quotations from letters and details of daily life on Duke’s many estates. ”— The New York Times

 

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Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader

This rich and accomplished collection showcases the range of a writer at the height of her powers. From the complex stories of artistic influence and the exhilaration and fright of solitude, to the incendiary rage of a betrayed young wife who sacrifices everything for revenge, to the struggles for independence of the three women who surrounded Ezra Pound like subservient stars, these fictions seize the reader’s attention while slashing stereotypes.

This Sallie Bingham Reader captures the spirit of the author’s illustrious writing career via short stories, a novella, and a play.

 

Sallie Bingham is a writer, teacher, feminist activist, and philanthropist.

Sallie’s first novel was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961; she has since published six additional novels and the well-known family memoir, Passion and Prejudice (Knopf, 1989). Her latest book, The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

She is founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which published The American Voice, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University.

 

Sallie's Latest

Politics

When We Work Together

  • March 7th, 2021March 7th, 2021
  • Debra Haaland, New Mexico

Probably, these two women don't know each other but they share certain defining characteristics: age, wisdom, and a recognition that the earth is our mother....

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Women, Writing

Heterodoxy

  • March 3rd, 2021March 3rd, 2021
  • Women Writing Women's Lives

Yesterday I was mesmerized by two presentations at our Women Writing Women's Lives Zoom meeting....

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Women

Barbie Forever

  • February 28th, 2021February 28th, 2021
  • Mothers

She's back in force....

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Theater

Hacked

  • February 24th, 2021February 24th, 2021
  • Amazon

I just received an email which appeared to be from Amazon—logo, etc.—advising me of a purchase of a laptop by a man named Craig something in Delaware and asking me to call....

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Writing

Forgiveness

  • February 21st, 2021
  • Writing, writing workshops

One of the problems with memoir writers, as I see it, is that we aim too low....

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New Mexico, Writing

Vindication

  • February 17th, 2021February 17th, 2021
  • Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories of indigenous people has a special meaning for me....

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Women

Mothers Are Hurting

  • February 14th, 2021February 28th, 2021
  • feminism, Mothers, The New York Times

The problems have always been with us, but they were easier to ignore when the economy boomed....

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New Mexico

Red-Headed Man

  • February 10th, 2021February 16th, 2021
  • New Mexico, Santa Fe

I am proud of the Red-Headed Man. ...

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Kentucky

Groundhog Pâté

  • February 7th, 2021
  • Hopscotch House, Kentucky Foundation for Women

I might have forgotten Groundhog Day entirely except for a box that’s just arrived from my dear friend, Wren Smith, in Kentucky....

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Politics, Women

Fabulous Women

  • February 3rd, 2021February 3rd, 2021
  • The Blue Box

Here is the proof, internationally as well as nationally: women do more than survive; we lead....

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The Silver Swan

New Mexico, Writing

Vindication

  • February 17th, 2021February 17th, 2021
  • Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories of indigenous people has a special meaning for me....

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Writing

Sallie Bingham Reads

  • October 7th, 2020October 7th, 2020
  • Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture, The Silver Swan, Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader

A wise interviewer asked me yesterday what I hoped to achieve through the presentation of my two current books......

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Philanthropy, Women

And Now, Margaret Sanger

  • July 22nd, 2020January 18th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

Yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York removed the name of Margaret Sanger, "founder of the organization," from its Manhattan clinic because of her "harmful connection to the eugenics movement."...

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Writing

What We Can’t Say Now

  • July 8th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Doris Duke, Julia Miles, Milk of Paradise, Sarah Gorham, The Silver Swan, Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader

We need to define, and vigorously defend, the line between art and politics....

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Writing

Clearing Out

  • May 10th, 2020May 10th, 2020
  • The Silver Swan

As I put my files, copies of the originals at Duke, into boxes for the shredder, I glance at a few that came as such pleasant surprises when I first found them eight or nine years ago....

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Writing

The Delights of Research

  • April 12th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Doris Duke, Rubenstein Library, The Silver Swan

There is nothing like opening a file box, with some unknown's penciled label at the top, and diving into an absolutely unpredictable collection of letters, notes, interviews—anything Doris Duke, in my case, decided to save....

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Writing

“The Swan” Launches!

  • April 7th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, The Silver Swan

I am so grateful to all my readers and potential readers and I look forward to being in touch with each and every one of you....

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Writing

Doris Duke is Born

  • March 8th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Cecil Beaton, Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

What do I hope my biography will accomplish? Nothing less than a complete reconsideration of Doris Duke....

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Writing

What Was Cut

  • February 16th, 2020February 16th, 2020
  • Doris Duke, Duke University, The Silver Swan

I suppose it’s a stretch—but then what is the point of writing without stretching?—but I think if Doris Duke had known about Julian Abele’s work, she would have admired him and regretted that during his life time, he was never given his due....

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Writing

At Last

  • May 26th, 2019December 15th, 2019
  • 20 Favorites of 2019, Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

In Manhattan last week, I was finally able to assure myself that The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, will be published next spring....

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Doris Duke

New Mexico, Writing

Vindication

  • February 17th, 2021February 17th, 2021
  • Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories of indigenous people has a special meaning for me....

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Philanthropy, Women

And Now, Margaret Sanger

  • July 22nd, 2020January 18th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

Yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York removed the name of Margaret Sanger, "founder of the organization," from its Manhattan clinic because of her "harmful connection to the eugenics movement."...

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Writing

What We Can’t Say Now

  • July 8th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Doris Duke, Julia Miles, Milk of Paradise, Sarah Gorham, The Silver Swan, Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader

We need to define, and vigorously defend, the line between art and politics....

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Women

A Queen Exiled at Home

  • May 3rd, 2020May 3rd, 2020
  • Doris Duke, Hawaii, Shangri La

If we treat ourselves as the queens we are, the example of Liliʻuokalani may inspire us....

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Writing

The Delights of Research

  • April 12th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Doris Duke, Rubenstein Library, The Silver Swan

There is nothing like opening a file box, with some unknown's penciled label at the top, and diving into an absolutely unpredictable collection of letters, notes, interviews—anything Doris Duke, in my case, decided to save....

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Writing

Doris Duke is Born

  • March 8th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Cecil Beaton, Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

What do I hope my biography will accomplish? Nothing less than a complete reconsideration of Doris Duke....

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Writing

What Was Cut

  • February 16th, 2020February 16th, 2020
  • Doris Duke, Duke University, The Silver Swan

I suppose it’s a stretch—but then what is the point of writing without stretching?—but I think if Doris Duke had known about Julian Abele’s work, she would have admired him and regretted that during his life time, he was never given his due....

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Philanthropy, Writing

Legacy of Harm

  • June 2nd, 2019December 15th, 2019
  • 20 Favorites of 2019, Doris Duke, James Buchanan Duke

Doris Duke must at least have wondered if her generosity, in all its forms, could ever compensate for the destructive effects of nicotine addiction. ...

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Writing

At Last

  • May 26th, 2019December 15th, 2019
  • 20 Favorites of 2019, Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

In Manhattan last week, I was finally able to assure myself that The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, will be published next spring....

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Women

Caught in the Act

  • February 10th, 2019February 10th, 2019
  • Doris Duke

One of the most notable differences between women and men in public life is we seem to know better how to avoid scandal....

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Writing

Women, Writing

Heterodoxy

  • March 3rd, 2021March 3rd, 2021
  • Women Writing Women's Lives

Yesterday I was mesmerized by two presentations at our Women Writing Women's Lives Zoom meeting....

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Writing

Forgiveness

  • February 21st, 2021
  • Writing, writing workshops

One of the problems with memoir writers, as I see it, is that we aim too low....

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New Mexico, Writing

Vindication

  • February 17th, 2021February 17th, 2021
  • Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories of indigenous people has a special meaning for me....

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New Mexico, Writing

The Blessing of Snow

  • January 27th, 2021January 27th, 2021
  • Black Pip, Santa Fe

For anyone who lives where early January brings the first major snowfall, there is a feeling that everything is right with the world....

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Women, Writing

Fifteen Hours of Darkness: The Solstice

  • December 22nd, 2020

For me this solstice has special meaning, perhaps because last night at sundown I was hoping to see the close conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, so close they are being called "The Christmas Star."...

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Writing

Beware

  • December 6th, 2020
  • Helena Lefroy Caperton, Jonathan Worth Bingham, Little Brother: The Short Life and Strange Death of Jonathan Worth Bingham

Can we be forgiven for signing these disreputable contracts, which often do not stipulate the amount of money we are expected to contribute to the publishing of our books until after we've signed?...

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Writing

Let Us Instead Consider

  • November 25th, 2020November 25th, 2020
  • Natalie Goldberg

I've never been enthusiastic about writing prompts, but these were of a higher imaginative quality than anything I've encountered before. ...

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My Family, Writing

White Privilege

  • November 22nd, 2020
  • Jonathan Worth Bingham, Little Brother: The Short Life and Strange Death of Jonathan Worth Bingham, Mary Caperton Bingham

As I begin to re-read piles of research, looking for details I may have missed and will want to include in this final revision of Little Brother, I find myself face to face with this issue....

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Writing

An Index of First Lines

  • November 15th, 2020February 24th, 2021
  • Poetry

We all need comfort, especially now with the pandemic raging across the nation. I was reminded of my all-time comfort sources: an open log fire, a line of poetry, and a beautiful overblown pink rose....

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My Family, Writing

Little Brother

  • November 11th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Jonathan Worth Bingham, Little Brother: The Short Life and Strange Death of Jonathan Worth Bingham

For the past four years, I've been chipping away at this complicated and difficult subject......

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Women

Women, Writing

Heterodoxy

  • March 3rd, 2021March 3rd, 2021
  • Women Writing Women's Lives

Yesterday I was mesmerized by two presentations at our Women Writing Women's Lives Zoom meeting....

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Women

Barbie Forever

  • February 28th, 2021February 28th, 2021
  • Mothers

She's back in force....

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Women

Mothers Are Hurting

  • February 14th, 2021February 28th, 2021
  • feminism, Mothers, The New York Times

The problems have always been with us, but they were easier to ignore when the economy boomed....

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Politics, Women

Fabulous Women

  • February 3rd, 2021February 3rd, 2021
  • The Blue Box

Here is the proof, internationally as well as nationally: women do more than survive; we lead....

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Art, Women

My Dinner Guest

  • January 31st, 2021January 31st, 2021

My dinner guest sits quietly as the sun sinks in the west behind her, but her quietness is temporary....

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Politics, Women

We Must Listen

  • January 20th, 2021
  • Capitol riots

We are in the time now of the spouting of the dragon's teeth but the soil was prepared for them decades ago. ...

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Women

Merry Solitude

  • December 25th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Christmas, gratitude, Ozlem Ezer, Sarabande Books

As I prepare to enjoy Christmas in blissful solitude, I'm particularly grateful for having learned during the past ten years how to love myself alone....

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Women, Writing

Fifteen Hours of Darkness: The Solstice

  • December 22nd, 2020

For me this solstice has special meaning, perhaps because last night at sundown I was hoping to see the close conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, so close they are being called "The Christmas Star."...

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Women

Hidden Heroines

  • December 1st, 2020December 1st, 2020

The dramatic figure of Richard Oakes obscures two Native women who were crucial to the eighteen-month occupation of Alcatraz....

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New Mexico, Women

Why Do Women Have to Be Nice?

  • October 25th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • Georgia O'Keeffe, World War Two

O'Keeffe's assertion of ownership of a mountain is outrageous and refreshingly so, in itself affirming that she was not a "nice woman."...

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New Mexico

New Mexico, Writing

Vindication

  • February 17th, 2021February 17th, 2021
  • Doris Duke, The Silver Swan

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories of indigenous people has a special meaning for me....

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New Mexico

Red-Headed Man

  • February 10th, 2021February 16th, 2021
  • New Mexico, Santa Fe

I am proud of the Red-Headed Man. ...

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New Mexico, Writing

The Blessing of Snow

  • January 27th, 2021January 27th, 2021
  • Black Pip, Santa Fe

For anyone who lives where early January brings the first major snowfall, there is a feeling that everything is right with the world....

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New Mexico

Two More Seconds of Daylight

  • December 30th, 2020December 30th, 2020
  • my garden, Santa Fe

Where tribes were destroyed or driven out, many of us relative newcomers are not aware of the history that confronts us here in the Southwest every day....

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New Mexico, Politics

A Bright Light

  • December 20th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Debra Haaland

This week, president-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of Laguna pueblo native, Debra Haaland, as Secretary of the Interior, gives proof positive of change....

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New Mexico

The Paper Carrier’s Prayer

  • December 17th, 2020December 17th, 2020
  • gratitude, Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexican

Every year at about this time, Yolanda leaves a typed note with the newspaper....

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New Mexico, Politics

Taos Pueblo and the Battle for Blue Lake

  • December 13th, 2020December 20th, 2020
  • Blue Lake, Debra Haaland

Cooperation to restore rights, to serve justice, and to recognize the sacred. That's what I hope for when our new administration takes over in January....

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New Mexico

The Way to Do It

  • December 9th, 2020December 9th, 2020
  • coronavirus, Santa Fe

What has happened since to weaken our moral fiber and make some of us unwilling to sacrifice?...

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New Mexico, Women

Why Do Women Have to Be Nice?

  • October 25th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • Georgia O'Keeffe, World War Two

O'Keeffe's assertion of ownership of a mountain is outrageous and refreshingly so, in itself affirming that she was not a "nice woman."...

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New Mexico

At Last

  • October 21st, 2020October 21st, 2020
  • Santa Fe

Radical change is never achieved slowly and quietly. This is a conservative country, by and large, and we have to be shaken out of our complacency for anything notable to happen....

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Kentucky

Kentucky

Groundhog Pâté

  • February 7th, 2021
  • Hopscotch House, Kentucky Foundation for Women

I might have forgotten Groundhog Day entirely except for a box that’s just arrived from my dear friend, Wren Smith, in Kentucky....

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Kentucky

Wolf Pen and the World

  • August 2nd, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Kentucky, Wolf Pen Mill Farm

We never escape our past or our responsibility for our past, as we never escape the future we have agreed to create....

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Kentucky

Heroes in Breeches

  • April 29th, 2020
  • Frontier Nursing University

I didn't think the horseback-riding British midwives I worked for years ago in the Kentucky mountains were heroes....

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Kentucky, Women

In A Dark Time

  • March 15th, 2020March 15th, 2020
  • feminism, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Poetry

How ironic and, yet, how strangely fitting, that this flying virus arrives at the middle of Women's History month and just before the April 7 publication of The Silver Swan......

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Art, Kentucky, Women

When a Great Woman Dies

  • April 7th, 2019December 15th, 2019
  • 20 Favorites of 2019, Ann Stewart Anderson, Kentucky Foundation for Women

When a great woman dies, we need to think about her again and again....

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Art, Kentucky

Sometimes It Takes a While

  • March 16th, 2019December 15th, 2019
  • 20 Favorites of 2019

Several decades ago, I became aware of the work and life of Enid Yandell, a Kentucky-born, Paris educated sculptor whose statues I used to see at various ceremonial points in Louisville. This early twentieth-century woman artist, although acclaimed in her time, seemed to be forgotten. Yandell was one of a group of talented women artists   ...

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Art, Kentucky

W.O.W.

  • March 3rd, 2019December 15th, 2019
  • 20 Favorites of 2019, Ann Stewart Anderson, Judy Chicago

I immediately recognized the originality and daring of a kindred spirit....

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Kentucky, My Family, New Mexico, Politics, Religion, Travel, Women, Writing

18 Favorites of 2018

  • February 26th, 2019February 26th, 2019

I've once again chosen my most popular posts of 2018, based on visits, comments, Tweets and Facebook likes....

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Kentucky, Women

Teaching Girls

  • February 15th, 2019February 17th, 2019
  • Louisville, Louisville Collegiate School

A small school in a southern city where girls were usually curbed physically or mentally, the Louisville Collegiate School for Girls and its teachers did not deal in... limits. My years there started me on my way as a writer....

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Kentucky, Politics

Kentucky Boys

  • January 29th, 2019January 30th, 2019

It was only words. But words have gotten us where we are now....

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My Family

Art, My Family

Pink Seesaws and My Birthday

  • January 24th, 2021January 24th, 2021

I just passed a most delightful birthday with my Santa Fe family, outdoors, in 45 degrees, with coats and coconut cake baked by my eldest granddaughter....

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My Family

Reclaiming Our Flag

  • January 13th, 2021January 13th, 2021
  • William Bingham Iovenko

It is still my flag, and ours. ...

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My Family

My Mother’s 116th Birthday: December 24, 2020

  • January 3rd, 2021January 3rd, 2021
  • Mary Clifford Caperton

It has taken me so long, decades after her death, to realize what a blessed and blessing spirit my mother, Mary Caperton Bingham, was....

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My Family, Writing

White Privilege

  • November 22nd, 2020
  • Jonathan Worth Bingham, Little Brother: The Short Life and Strange Death of Jonathan Worth Bingham, Mary Caperton Bingham

As I begin to re-read piles of research, looking for details I may have missed and will want to include in this final revision of Little Brother, I find myself face to face with this issue....

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My Family, Writing

Little Brother

  • November 11th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Jonathan Worth Bingham, Little Brother: The Short Life and Strange Death of Jonathan Worth Bingham

For the past four years, I've been chipping away at this complicated and difficult subject......

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My Family, Writing

Rage

  • September 17th, 2020September 17th, 2020
  • racism

Whether it's black rage or white rage—justified or not—rage makes me uncomfortable....

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My Family, Politics

There Was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket

  • September 13th, 2020September 13th, 2020
  • Cecil Beaton, Lizzie Baker

What we are all obliged to do now: to join in sweeping the cobwebs. There is a little time and a little space, provided by the pandemic, for such a sweeping......

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My Family, Women

How Libels Take Hold

  • May 24th, 2020January 16th, 2021
  • 20 Favorites of 2020, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Hearsay, sometimes passed down for three hundred years, sticks—especially if it is negative, and especially if it adheres to a woman....

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My Family, New Mexico

Dancing for the New Year

  • January 1st, 2020January 1st, 2020
  • dancing, Santa Fe, William Bingham Iovenko

I'll be dancing in the New Year—out with the old, in with the new, and hope springing eternal....

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Art, My Family

And It Does Go On

  • May 16th, 2019
  • Ellsworth Gallery, William Bingham Iovenko

I am devoutly grateful for the lives of Will's two older brothers who have mourned him with me and yet managed to go on....

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Latest Comments

  • Joanne irwin on When We Work Together: “Let’s hold out hope. Well said, Sallie!!” March 7th, 7:02 am
  • Sandy Schreiber on Hacked: “Absolutely do not call them back. I have gotten 3 or 4 of these calls. They are ANSOLUTELY scams!!! Sandy…” March 3rd, 10:24 am
  • D. Gray on Hacked: “Go to your Amazon account and look at your orders. You will most likely see that nobody else bought anything,…” February 24th, 2:53 pm
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  • Rebecca Jean Henderson on My Dinner Guest: “February 17th Presidents day 1986.” February 17th, 10:10 am

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Sallie Bingham Reads From The Silver Swan and Treason

Sallie Bingham Reads From The Silver Swan and Treason

October 7th, 2020
Readings from my two books published in 2020, The Silver Swan (FSG) and Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader (Sarabande).
Full Interview with Sallie Bingham

Full Interview with Sallie Bingham

July 8th, 2020
Sallie Bingham tells the story of creating the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 1985 and the importance of women's contributions to art for social change in Kentucky.

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Doris Duke's Legacy

Doris Duke's Legacy

April 6th, 2020
Sallie Bingham discusses Doris Duke's life, philanthropy, property and legacy. Recorded Fall of 2019 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Listen and/or download.
The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

April 6th, 2020
Sallie Bingham discusses The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, now available from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Listen and/or download.

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Recent Press

New York Social Diary: Sallie on Women, Philanthropy and Doris Duke - “the greatest woman philanthropist of the 20th century.”

Important To Me

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, which I founded with Professor Jean O’Barr decades ago, joins distinguished company. The Center, along with the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture, the Human Rights Archive, and the Archive of Documentary Arts, among others, are all part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Highlights include the papers of Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Anne Bradstreet and Harriett Beecher Stowe among many others—and Virginia Woolf’s painted writing desk.

For more on The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, please read my post Center Helps Preserve Women’s History from the monthly newsletter of BIO.

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