In a most unusual portrait of early America, a young mother’s years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.
Books and Plays by Sallie Bingham
Sallie's complete collection of books and plays, in chronological order.
Little Brother: A Memoir
Sarabande Books (May 17, 2022) — Nonfiction
In Little Brother, Sallie Bingham reflects on just one of her siblings: the youngest son Jonathan and his all-too brief life.
Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader
Sarabande Books (August 18, 2020) — Anthologies
This Sallie Bingham Reader captures the spirit of the author’s illustrious writing career via short stories, a novella, and a play.
The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 7, 2020) — Nonfiction
The first serious literary biography of a complex woman, the greatest woman philanthropist of the twentieth century, based on her extensive archive at Duke University in Durham, NC.
The Blue Box
Sarabande Books (August 12, 2014) — Nonfiction
This family history centered around three women from three generations spans the Civil War through the Jazz Age. Fans of Sallie Bingham’s work will especially appreciate her parents Mary and Barry’s romance that unfolds in letters and finally results in marriage. Bingham beautifully demonstrates an inheritance of emotion, morality, ideology, and most lasting of all, irreverence.
Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
University of New Mexico Press (8/1/2013) — Anthologies
The Southwest of the twenty-first century is full of surprises, and so is this collection of southwestern short stories published between 2007 and 2011. The writers represented here remind us that this is not the “Old Southwest” of gunfighters and sagebrush but, instead, a place of rock collectors, palm readers, and Russian mail-order brides. Well-known authors like Sallie Bingham, Ron Carlson, Laura Furman, and Dagoberto Gilb are joined here by exciting newcomers Eddie Chuculate, Don Waters, Claire Vaye Watkins, and others.
Scenes from the Common Wealth: Short Plays and Monologues by Kentucky Women
Motes Books (5/25/2013) — Anthologies
Experienced and novice writers are presented together in this unique volume of monologues and short scripts. This anthology highlights a significant force in contemporary American theatre-the growing presence of women as playwrights. Award-winners are here, and so are undiscovered voices. They have one thing in common…their individual artistic journeys all include time spent in Kentucky-some for a short while, others for a lifetime.
Mending: New and Selected Stories
Sarabande Books (10/1/2011) — Fiction
In Mending, Sallie Bingham follows the often brutal course of yearning and its disappointments with an emotional acuity both unflinching and vigilant.
If in Darkness
Tebot Bach (2010) — Poetry
Sallie Bingham’s third book of poems, dedicated to her mother, is fronted by an image of the Cretan Snake Goddess, the powerful and mysterious Neolithic goddess whose meaning has never
A Dangerous Personality
(2008)
She explored Tibet, fought with Garibaldi, rode across India on the back of an elephant, was friends with Thomas Edison – a terror to the establishment, and a nightmare to