In Little Brother, Sallie Bingham reflects on just one of her siblings: the youngest son Jonathan and his all-too brief life.
Nonfiction
Nonfiction by Sallie Bingham
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.
Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir
Alfred A. Knopf (1989) — Nonfiction
For the first time, the dramatic and disturbing story of the Binghams is told from the inside by someone who lived it: Sallie Bingham, an heiress to the Bingham fortune and to four generations of family tradition and turmoil—the daughter who set in motion the events that led to the dissolution of the family communications empire.