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The Silver Swan: Searching for Doris Duke

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux ( Forthcoming )

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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

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Sarabande Books (August 12, 2014)

The Blue Box (2014)

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

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Alfred A. Knopf (1989)

Passion and Prejudice (1989)

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.

 

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The Last Word - KSFR

The Last Word - KSFR

June 10th, 2017
Host Abigail Adler and I discuss women, my family and growing up in the South on The Last Word, KSFR - Santa Fe Public Radio.
St. John's College, Santa Fe: Reading from Doris Duke

St. John's College, Santa Fe: Reading from Doris Duke

March 12th, 2017
My first reading from Doris Duke: The Invention of the New Woman. The reading took place on March 7, 2017 at St. John's College Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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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.”

The Blue Box

Available Now From Sarabande Books

“...Bingham's box of documents traverses time, offering insights into a world of women who knew their own minds long before the word feminist was ever considered.”

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