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# Sallie Bingham

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## Posts
- [If You Want to Build a Strong Girl](https://www.salliebingham.com/if-you-want-to-build-a-strong-girl/): For all of us who are influencing the development of daughters and granddaughters (and nieces and young friends) here are a few thoughts.
- [The Writer’s Nose](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-writers-nose/): I've taught dozens of workshops over the years; all anyone wants to hear about is writing memoir, which is beginning to seem quite dull to me...
- [Being Seventeen](https://www.salliebingham.com/being-seventeen/): I was beginning to revel in the unexpected adventures and treasures of my sophomore year at college... I would never have expected that I would make a gift of my poems to my parents.
- [Eighteen Slaves](https://www.salliebingham.com/eighteen-slaves/): I'm now excavating the final layer of letters and papers in my mother's Blue Box; the upper levels have given me the impetus and the materials for my two previous books.
- [Remembering Pip](https://www.salliebingham.com/remembering-pip/): July 9, 2024: Pip is suffering, he has suffered in silence and withdrawal, sleeping outside at night for the past two weeks. Now his stomach is full of tumors, he can't eat, throws up what he drinks. I will work on remembering all the years of his blessed companionship.
- [Reasons to Hope](https://www.salliebingham.com/reasons-to-hope/): It's important not to be ploughed under by the chaos and intemperance in Washington. We don't live in that swamp, and we don't need to allow our hopes and dreams to be drowned out by the noise.
- [The Fruits of the Past Five Years](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-fruits-of-the-past-five-years/): It has taken many years, many rejections, disappointments and sidetracks, to get to the place I wanted to be when I published my first book in the 1960s.
- [Feeding the Fish](https://www.salliebingham.com/feeding-the-fish/): Some years ago a man I was in love with at the time persuaded me to have a large fish pond dug near my studio. I think it was his attempt to be part of my necessarily solitary life there...
- [Whose Eyes](https://www.salliebingham.com/whose-eyes/): Yesterday, as I was walking through my garden admiring the play of early light on leaves and flowers, I looked up at the old trellis and found two eyes staring at me.
- [Lady Wisdom](https://www.salliebingham.com/lady-wisdom/): Religious Icon of Hagia Sophia by Eileen McGuckin
- [The Great Take Back March](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-great-take-back-march/): The wailing heart-broken sounds of old mountain melodies brought Kentucky here to the high desert.
- [Sons of Good Fathers](https://www.salliebingham.com/sons-of-good-fathers/): I was intrigued when I opened the current issue of Harper's and read the listing for an article called "Letter From Louisville."
- [Just Plain Too Many](https://www.salliebingham.com/just-plain-too-many/): A wise Buddhist recommends that we never tell anyone how old we are for if we do, we will be folded in with the tiresome, the incontinent, the disposable.
- [The Dead River](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-dead-river/): As we exist now in a time of political frenzy, misinformation and over-reaction, perhaps the repression that sits like a lid over nice people will lift a little. It did in the 1960s...
- [As We All Move Ahead…](https://www.salliebingham.com/as-we-all-move-ahead/): A few days ago in Santa Fe, I went to the first big Native Fashion Week in a cavernous room in the Convention Center.
- [Boy Books](https://www.salliebingham.com/boy-books/): However they came to me, I'm eternally grateful for these books for they gave me the inspiration for my sense of daring—"chivalry"—that has stood me in good stead my whole life.
- [Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939](https://www.salliebingham.com/brilliant-exiles-american-women-in-paris-1900-1939/): I never expected to see this current exhibit at any museum, least of all at the once sleepy Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
- [Before It All Went Away](https://www.salliebingham.com/before-it-all-went-away/): This is our future. It is a future that depends on the hard work of women and African Americans; women certainly played no role in early manufacturing, and African Americans would have been limited to the lowest-paid jobs.
- [My Friendship Quilt (2025)](https://www.salliebingham.com/my-friendship-quilt-2025/): On the question of continuity.
- [High Five](https://www.salliebingham.com/high-five/): My shopping cart was half full when I rolled it past a tall, handsome African American wearing a blue suit.
- [Carrying On vs. Carrying On](https://www.salliebingham.com/carrying-on-vs-carrying-on/): We are in danger of overreacting. Every day the front pages of newspapers and the news shows scream. Every day friends use more and more exaggerated terms...
- [Can Writing Be Taught?](https://www.salliebingham.com/can-writing-be-taught/): I face this crucial question whenever I am about to begin teaching another workshop, always now in memoir writing, which over the last twenty years has become a crucial form of self-expression for many women and some men who aspire to shape, refine and share their stories.
- [Staring the Devil in the Eye Every Morning](https://www.salliebingham.com/staring-the-devil-in-the-eye-every-morning/): It's too late to roll back the advances of the last 80 years, the changes in laws and behavior and expectation that have been and are the work of thousands of nameless women.
- [Ordinary Miracles](https://www.salliebingham.com/ordinary-miracles/): It seemed to me so beautiful, such a miracle, that I wondered why we were not all dancing and shouting jubilee.
- [The Heavens Shed a Tear](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-heavens-shed-a-tear/): The death of the people's pope brings universal sadness but also for me a sense of great gratitude for what he was and what he stood for in spite of mighty resistance.
- [The Spirit of Easter](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-spirit-of-easter/): To me, Good Friday now means that we are about to experience She Is Risen: spring, the yellow tulips in my garden, and the statue of the goddess Quan Yin.
- [My Friends the Ravens](https://www.salliebingham.com/my-friends-the-ravens/): I keep waiting grumpily for a spell of warm, settled weather. But not my friends the ravens. This is the weather they adore.
- [The Pleasures of Being a Lifelong Learner](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-pleasures-of-being-a-lifelong-learner/): La fin de Cheri by Colette
- [The Worm Turns](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-worm-turns/): With the march yesterday—snow and severe cold here—I'm sensing something is changing that doesn't depend on crowds turning out. It seems this country is finally rebelling.
- [The One Hundredth Anniversary](https://www.salliebingham.com/one-hundredth-anniversary-eva-lee-smith-wolf-pen-mill/): All hail Eva Lee Smith Cooper and all women who persevere.
- [What Gives Me Joy](https://www.salliebingham.com/what-gives-me-joy/): How lucky I am, how lucky we all are, who can find moments of joy to set against the chaos that surrounds but must never be allowed to overwhelm us.
- [The Kindness of Strangers](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-kindness-of-strangers/): We have friends, we have family, but in many of the ordinary events of daily life, they are not at hand. Strangers are.
- [Remembering Gardens](https://www.salliebingham.com/remembering-gardens/): Now as spring slowly, very slowly, arrives here in the southern Rockies with what may be the last snowfall of the season just a week behind us, I'm reminded of all the spring gardens I've enjoyed, beginning with Easter in Kentucky.
- [The Apple Never Falls Far…](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-apple-never-falls-far/): Why does historic preservation matter, and why should these designations be supported by the communities in which they are found?
- [Making Cozy](https://www.salliebingham.com/making-cozy/): If you don't already have one, take a few minutes now to create your own cozy corner and devote a portion of every day to inhabiting it.
- [Break the Shackles of Conformity](https://www.salliebingham.com/break-the-shackles-of-conformity/): I've been wondering why I have a certain lack of enthusiasm for Women's Month, Women's Day, et al. It seems a betrayal of the active feminists I know...
- [For Arthur](https://www.salliebingham.com/for-arthur/): I used to see Arthur Firstenberg on Saturday morning at the Santa Fe Farmer's Market, walking alone; I never saw anyone speak to him and the casual gossip I picked up was that he was a nut of some kind, preaching a gospel nobody wanted to hear.
- [Bow Down to the Earth](https://www.salliebingham.com/bow-down-to-the-earth/): As we hurry and scurry about, the birds are still attending my feeder and the crows are performing their ballet in the sky.
- [We Shall Overcome](https://www.salliebingham.com/we-shall-overcome-2/): This great Civil Rights era anthem is one I'll be humming or singing every day now as I work to keep my spirits up during the current onslaught.
- [Why Are My Closest Friends Gay Men?](https://www.salliebingham.com/why-are-my-closest-friends-gay-men/): Yes, I have excellent women friends... but there is something in the companionship of my two closest gay men friends that offers something different.
- [It’s Coming!](https://www.salliebingham.com/its-coming/): I look on the eighteen short stories in How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories as a miracle I will never entirely understand—or need to—but here's a stab at it.
- [I’m Proud!](https://www.salliebingham.com/im-proud/): I've changed and the site has changed since I started it in 2002.
- [The Medial Woman](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-medial-woman/): I propose to counter panic with specific remedies, for panic only hands more power to the oppressor.
- [The Uses of Armor](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-uses-of-armor/): The world seems to require us to protect ourselves now, and maybe always.
- [Some Miracles](https://www.salliebingham.com/some-miracles/): I’ve been blessed often in my life but seldom as fully as in this past week.
- [Live Wires](https://www.salliebingham.com/live-wires/): As the tide of misogamy sweeps toward us, I'm noticing—as perhaps some of you have—that women are falling silent.
- [The Nature of Evil](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-nature-of-evil/): In the last few days, I've had to face the fact that now, if for the first time, Evil is operating in our world.
- [Sometimes I Feel Discouraged](https://www.salliebingham.com/sometimes-i-feel-discouraged/): We cannot afford to be discouraged for long. Above all, we cannot afford to be afraid.
- [Cures for the Blues](https://www.salliebingham.com/cures-for-the-blues/): We've been told by many authorities to get outside and walk... another surefire cure for the blues is poetry... And then there's the power in singing, anytime, anywhere with any kind of voice.
- [The Slow and Painful Process of Change](https://www.salliebingham.com/the-slow-and-painful-process-of-change/): An article in a recent New Yorker reminded me of how unable to change I was as a college student in the late 1950s when the old rules were breaking all around me.

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- [Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture](https://www.salliebingham.com/sallie-bingham-center-womens-history-culture/): Virginia Woolf's Writing Desk, Painted by her nephew Quentin Bell, c. 1929. Photograph by Annie Schlechter.
- [A Transformative Gift from a Women’s Health Pioneer](https://www.salliebingham.com/transformative-gift-womens-health-pioneer/): By Laura Micham, Merle Hoffman Director, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
- [Converging Circles](https://www.salliebingham.com/converging-circles/): At important points in their lives, Sallie Bingham and Bruce McBroom each made a life-changing decision to move to New Mexico. Their journeys were different, but their destination—Santa Fe—was the same. Now full-time residents, their paths may have never converged but for one thing: each recently joined The Circles, a Museum of New Mexico Foundation membership group whose support provides sustainable futures for our museums. These are their stories.
- [Thank You](https://www.salliebingham.com/thank-you/): Your order should ship within 2-3 business days.
- [Biography](https://www.salliebingham.com/resources-biography/): Sallie Bingham (1937-2025) was a writer, teacher, feminist activist, and philanthropist.
- [Blog](https://www.salliebingham.com/blog/)
- [Home](https://www.salliebingham.com/)
- [Contact](https://www.salliebingham.com/contact/): August 7, 2025: "Sallie Bingham, Author at the Center of a Newspaper Drama, Dies at 88" New York Times
- [About Sallie](https://www.salliebingham.com/about/): It was a small apartment in a flat space at the bottom of a hill in Boston, a small apartment without much light, looking out on a flat space that all that winter was jammed with snow. I was six months past my college graduation, three months past my wedding, and my husband had left for basic training in New Jersey—these were the years of the draft. This curious sequence of events had been carefully planned: graduation in June, the wedding in October, basic training next, and then—my first novel.

## Bibliography
- [How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/how-daddy-lost-his-ear-and-other-stories/): Four generations of outrageous, of-the-moment characters thrive amidst hardship in their own way, turning the myth of the Old West on its head.
- [Taken by the Shawnee](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/taken-by-the-shawnee/): 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.
- [Little Brother: A Memoir](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/nonfiction/little-brother-a-memoir/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/anthologies/treason-a-sallie-bingham-reader/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/nonfiction/silver-swan-in-search-of-doris-duke/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/nonfiction/the-blue-box/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/anthologies/road-stories-southwest/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/anthologies/scenes-common-wealth-short-plays-monologues-kentucky-women/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/mending/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/poetry/darkness/): 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 been discovered; likewise, these poems range from simple praise of natural beauty to the painful paradoxes of intimate relations. Bingham’s poems offer beauty but no easy answers.
- [A Dangerous Personality](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/dangerous-personality/): 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 the British Raj. Russian-born spiritualist and philosopher Helena Blavatsky lived everywhere from London to India to Hell's Kitchen – and was (and remains) one of the most controversial figures in world religion. With her colleague, Henry Steele Olcott, she created Theosophy - the science of religion, The Secret Doctrine – Christ without the Church.
- [Red Car](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/red-car/): In these twelve stories, Bingham travels from the beaches of Normandy shortly after the second World War, to modern-day Brittany, Santa Fe, Florida, and Southern Colorado to situate her wide range of characters.
- [Treason](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/treason/): Treason covers two and half decades in Pound’s life, travels from Italy to Washington, D.C., and introduces characters as varied as segregationist John Kasper and “beat” poet Allen Ginsberg.
- [The Hub of the Miracle](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/poetry/hub-miracle/): Sallie Bingham's poems seek, always, to connect. The events of ordinary life--walking in the woods around Santa Fe, lighting a fire in a stove--merge with the crises of maturity: death and other losses. Always, the tonic is hope--the hope that springs from a stone, a stream, or a memory of childhood. These short lyrics provide inspiration for all travelers on the path. Sallie Bingham began writing poetry as a child. Her first verses, dictated to her mother, were sent to her father who was serving overseas during World War 11. Discouraged from becoming a poet by the attitude then prevailing at writing classes at Harvard, she has finally returned to her first love.
- [Nick of Time](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/nick-time/): Melanie is a dancer-the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late in life, she decides to pursue one dream, a dream she can't afford, which her husband opposes: she will become a skilled ballroom dancer, moving to the old love songs that have never applied to her life. And she wants to learn to lead! As she takes lessons, scrapes up the money to pay for costumes, and prepares for her first competition, she faces increasing opposition. But she persists, entering the glamorous, demanding world of professional dancing with an innocence and a determination that will change her life.
- [Cory’s Feast](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/corys-feast/): Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucible for the transformation of her guests. Eccentric and charming, with a lover from the Pueblo and lots of turquoise and broomstick skirts, Cory finds her guests, mainly skiers and tourists, bewildered by her particular philosophy, which she calls “The School of As-If.”
- [Transgressions: Stories](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/transgressions-stories/): In her wise and sexy collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day "transgressions" in affairs of the heart. She offers up a ménage à trois, an older woman's affair with a student, a painter who uses his age as an excuse to behave indecorously. But the reader quickly discovers the real transgressions are those of the self against the self.
- [Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/anthologies/home-anthology-kentucky-short-stories/): Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world.
- [Straight Man](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/straight-man/): Though the title of Bingham's new novel suggests one half of a comedy team, the feelings of the protagonist, Louisville college professor Colby Winn, are no joke. When Colby picks up hitchiker Ann Lee Crabtree, his initial interest in the free-spirited woman almost immediately becomes obsessive.
- [Piggyback](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/piggyback/): Play about the Kentucky Poet and balladeer John Jacob Niles, and his relationship with the photographer Doris Ulmann; based on the photo of Niles helping Ulmann cross Cutshin Creek in 1932.
- [Matron of Honor](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/matron-honor/): As in her previous novels, Bingham concerns herself with family relationships, and in many ways revisits the tensions of her own well-known Kentucky clan, which she chronicled in the nonfiction Passion and Prejudice . This muted yet powerful narrative is her best yet, as she captures a prominent Kentucky family, the Masons, at their most vulnerable.
- [Upstate](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/upstate/): A woman's obsession drives an affair out of control, violating social contracts and devastating the people in its path. For years, Ann and David shared weekends and holidays with country friends Flora and Edwin, even after womanizing Edwin took Ann away to pick grapes and started a year-long affair. The ground rules were clear from the start: Flora accepted what she called Edwin's meaningless "things," and Edwin stipulated no divorces. But Ann's empty marriage (to which David was providing neither money nor sex) and growing need for Edwin cause her to ask for more, leading to estrangement and a startling climax.
- [Small Victories](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/small-victories/): Southern gothic touches lace this dark, portentous story of family lies revealed and grievances redressed. In Passion & Prejudice, Bingham described the bitter conflicts that beset several generations of her own family, which owned the Louisville Courier-Journal. She sets this, her second novel, in a small North Carolina town circa 1958. Louise, the elder of two middle-aged sisters, quietly cares for childlike Shelby, who suffers unpredictable seizures and emotional storms. Baffled and embarrassed by Louise's refusal to put Shelby in an institution, their beloved cousin Big Tom, a state senator, forces her hand. While casting about for ways to free Shelby, Louise tries mightily to strip emotional blinders from the eyes of Big Tom's tormented son, a Harvard sophomore heading for a nervous breakdown.
- [Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/nonfiction/passion-prejudice-family-memoir/): 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.
- [The Awakening](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/the-awakening/): An adaptation of the novel by Kate Chopin, The Awakening premiered at the Horse Cave Theatre in Kentucky in 1988.
- [Hopscotch](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/hopscotch/): Hopscotch tells the history of four well-known Kentucky women, including the truths that are often left out. It was performed at the Horse Cave Theatre in Kentucky in 1986.
- [Paducah](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/paducah/): Clay Baker is an attractive middle-aged man, long married to his charming wife, Julia; they live in comfortable retirement in a small town in western Kentucky called Paducah. Angela is Clay’s longtime mistress and Julia’s best friend, a pleasant arrangement that causes the Baker’s adult daughter, Suzi, a good deal of grief. She is joined in her disapproval by the Bakers’ black butler, Clete, who represents the moral center of the play. As the play unfolds, the arrangement that worked so well for years comes under increasing strain as Suzi and Clete try to bring Clay, Angela, and Julia to show remorse and dedicate themselves to a better way of life. Presented by the Women’s Project & Productions, the show premiered at the American Place Theatre in New York City in 1985.
- [In the Presence](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/in-the-presence/): In the Presence is based on the book The Wall Between by the renowned civil rights worker Anne McCarty Braden. It was first performed at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1984, and subsequently at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1986.
- [Couvade](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/couvade/): A one-man show in which the actor gives birth on stage, Couvade was performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky in 1983.
- [Milk of Paradise](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/plays/milk-paradise/): Milk of Paradise—set over two days in June 1937—follows two children adrift in a confusing world of distracted adults and too much poetry. Produced by the Women’s Project & Productions, it was performed under the artistic direction of Julia Miles at the American Place Theatre in New York City in 1980.
- [The Way It Is Now](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/the-way-it-is-now/): In the fifteen stories collected in The Way It Is Now, girlhood, love, sexual initiation, motherhood, and middle age are played out in cauterizing dramas against a variety of background settings. Growth is often forced rather than chosen, and the joys of maturity gleam and vanish.
- [The Touching Hand](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/touching-hand/): The Touching Hand includes the short novel that gives the book its name, as well as six short stories. In the title work, two children travel to England in the care of their nurse, Lutie. Over the course of the five-day voyage, the pattern of all three lives changes as reality intrudes on the fantasy that they share. Ultimately, it is Lutie’s gift of tenderness and love that makes the children vulnerable and yet can also save them.
- [After Such Knowledge](https://www.salliebingham.com/bibliography/fiction/after-such-knowledge/): As the only daughter of a worldly woman who married beneath her and regretted it, Mona is launched upon New York society to redeem her mother’s mistake. But the sudden popularity and freedom are intoxicating, and Mona’s self-confidence burgeons. She decides to cap the success of her summer by falling in love. Ignorant and eager, she does not understand the implications of her desire. Mona slips into an affair with an expatriate American in Paris, who seems to represent all the shadowy delights of the sophisticated world. Yet her first venture into sex is agonizingly unlike her rose-colored imaginings. . .

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## Audio
- [Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/rebecca-reynolds-sallie-bingham-somos/): This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
- [Taken by the Shawnee Reading](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/taken-by-the-shawnee-reading/): This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.
- [On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/on-memoir-and-my-writing-memoir-writing-history-workshops/): I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, not casual. It really is the writing of history.
- [Little Brother: A Memoir](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/little-brother-a-memoir/): Sallie Bingham, author of Little Brother: A Memoir, published by Sarabande Books, discusses the life and early death of her younger brother Jonathan at the age of 21.
- [Eastern Standard – Cynthia Resor chats with author Sallie Bingham about “Little Brother”](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/eastern-standard-cynthia-resor-chats-with-author-sallie-bingham-about-little-brother/): Cynthia Resor chats with author Sallie Bingham about "Little Brother", her account of her brother's accidental death and misperceptions about the realities of wealth and privilege.
- [Literary Sound Bites Presents Sallie Bingham](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/literary-sound-bites-presents-sallie-bingham/): From Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe, New Mexico: Literary Sound Bites Presents Sallie Bingham
- [Doris Duke’s Legacy](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/doris-dukes-legacy/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/the-silver-swan-in-search-of-doris-duke/): Sallie Bingham discusses The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, now available from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Listen and/or download.
- [The Last Word – KSFR](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/the-last-word-ksfr/): 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](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/st-johns-college-santa-fe-reading-doris-duke/): My first reading from The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke. The reading took place on March 7, 2017 at St. John's College Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- [Women’s Focus, KUNM](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/womens-focus-kunm/): I am interviewed by Carol Boss on Women's Focus March 28, 2015. Women's Focus can be heard at noon on KUNM, 89.9 FM on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and the occasional 5th Saturdays of every month.
- [Three Goddesses In One – On The Naked Virgin](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/three-goddesses-in-one-on-the-naked-virgin/): The audio of a talk I gave on Paz's painting at Eye on the Mountain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 6th, at the closing of the "Guadalupe Show"
- [Santa Fe READS Panel Discussion](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/santa-fe-reads-panel-discussion/): As a longtime admirer of Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe, I was honored and delighted to participate in the “Santa Fe READS” panel discussion with several other authors, all living in Northern New Mexico.
- [“The Blue Box” – Louisville Late Nite (Audio)](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/blue-box-louisville-late-nite-audio/): This interview was recorded November 2014 and broadcast on Patrick Moore's Louisville Late Night show on Time/Warner channel 98 in two parts through December and early January 2015.
- [Santa Fe Radio Café – The Blue Box](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/santa-fe-radio-cafe-blue-box/): Author, playwright on her new book The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters
- [Santa Fe Radio Café](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/santa-fe-radio-cafe/): Sallie Bingham Author, recipient of award from the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
- [<em>The Blue Box</em>: Five Lives in Letters (audio)](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/blue-box-lives-letters-audio-mp3/): Sallie Bingham: The Blue Box: Five Lives in Letters. Recorded on May 15, 2012 at the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
- [Accents – Lexington, Kentucky](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/accents-lexington-kentucky/): Sallie Bingham appears on Accents - 88.1 FM Lexington, Kentucky, A Radio Show for Literature, Art and Culture
- [La Sodiedad Para Las Artes](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/la-sodiedad-para-las-artes/): La Sodiedad Para Las Artes presents: Sallie Bingham. Nelson Boswell Distinguished Writer's Reading Series. Sallie reads from Red Car and Transgressions. Recorded January 28, 2011 at New Mexico State University.
- [Writers On Radio](https://www.salliebingham.com/audio/writers-on-radio/): Writers On Radio with Tania Casselle. Sallie Bingham reads from her novel Cory's Feast, set in Taos, NM. Recorded February, 2006.

## Videos
- [How Daddy Lost His Ear: And Other Stories](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/how-daddy-lost-his-ear-and-other-stories/): Sallie Bingham reads from and discusses her final book, her fifth collection of short stories.
- [On The Movement](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/on-the-movement-by-clara-bingham/): Sallie Bingham discusses The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973. Being a single parent, her early days as a writer, and the struggles women faced during that time and the importance of Consciousness-Raising Groups to the women's liberation movement.
- [Taken By The Shawnee](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/taken-by-the-shawnee/): Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
- [Visiting Linda Stein](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/visiting-linda-stein/): Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
- [On Solitude](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/on-solitude/): Sallie Bingham, on the importance of Solitude in writing and in life. Recorded Fall of 2022 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- [On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/on-memoir-and-my-writing-memoir-writing-history-workshops/): I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of history.
- [Little Brother: A Memoir](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/little-brother-a-memoir/): Sallie Bingham, author of Little Brother: A Memoir, published by Sarabande Books, discusses the life and early death of her younger brother Jonathan at the age of 21.
- [Sallie Bingham, Little Brother: Writing About Grief](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/sallie-bingham-little-brother-writing-about-grief/): Sallie Bingham reads at The New York Society Library in November, 2022.
- [Kathy Schulz, The Underground Railroad in Ohio](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/kathy-schulz-the-underground-railroad-in-ohio/): On June 1, I had the pleasure of discussing the Underground Railroad with Kathy Schultz, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio.
- [Writing and Talking about Memoir: “Little Brother,” a Conversation with Sallie Bingham](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/writing-and-talking-about-memoir-little-brother-a-conversation-with-sallie-bingham/): Welcome and thank you so much for joining us for this exciting event, “Writing and Talking about Memoir: Little Brother.”
- [Doris Duke: A Lifetime Search for Faith](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/doris-duke-a-lifetime-search-for-faith/): On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 I presented a talk to The Library Committee of The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico entitled "Doris Duke: A Lifetime Search for Faith."
- [Q&A With Students: Christa McAuliffe Middle School, FL](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/qa-with-students-christa-mcauliffe-middle-school-fl/): On February 4, I spoke to students at the Christa McAuliffe Middle School in Palm Beach County, Florida over Zoom at the request of Dr. Alexander Bellas, Grade 8 English Language Arts Teacher.
- [Sallie Bingham Reads From The Silver Swan and Treason](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/sallie-bingham-reads-from-the-silver-swan-and-treason/): Readings from my two books published in 2020, The Silver Swan (FSG) and Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader (Sarabande).
- [Full Interview with Sallie Bingham](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/full-interview-with-sallie-bingham/): 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.
- [Doris Duke’s Legacy](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/doris-dukes-legacy/): Sallie Bingham discusses Doris Duke's life, philanthropy, property and legacy. Recorded Fall of 2019 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- [The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/the-silver-swan-in-search-of-doris-duke/): Sallie Bingham discusses The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Recorded Fall of 2019 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- [Doris Duke’s Shangri La](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/doris-dukes-shangri-la/): From CBS: Heiress Doris Duke built a home in Honolulu that was a testament to the cultures she discovered in her 'round-the-world travels. And now it's a museum, the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design.
- [Women Writing Women’s Lives – 25th Anniversary Seminar](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/women-writing-womens-lives-25th-anniversary-seminar/): On October 2, 2015, the 25th Anniversary WWWL Conference took place in Manhattan, NY. This video is of the second panel, "Telling the Life Story," which I took part in along with Betty Boyd Caroli, Ruth Franklin and Gail Levin.
- [Outside the Book – Sallie Bingham](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/outside-the-book-sallie-bingham/): Author Sallie Bingham joins host Barbara Deeb live from the 2015 Southern Kentucky Festival of Books in this segment from "Outside the Book" to discuss her latest title, "The Blue Box".
- [Kentucky Foundation for Women on “Connections” – KET](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/kentucky-foundation-for-women-on-connections-ket/): Female artists and small-business owners can face special challenges when it comes to advancing their careers. On this week’s edition of Connections, host Renee Shaw explored two organizations that support women in their creative and economic endeavors.
- [Three Goddesses In One – On The Naked Virgin](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/three-goddesses-in-one-on-the-naked-virgin/): The video of a talk I gave on Paz's painting at Eye on the Mountain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 6th, at the closing of the "Guadalupe Show."
- [“The Blue Box” – Louisville Late Nite](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/the-blue-box-louisville-late-nite/): This interview was recorded November 2014 and broadcast on Patrick Moore's Louisville Late Night show on Time/Warner channel 98 in two parts through December and early January 2015.
- [Women’s International Study Center](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/womens-international-study-center/): Founding Ceremony: June 23, 2013. Remarks by Sallie Bingham, Founding Donor.
- [Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/sallie-bingham-center-womens-history-culture-duke-university/): Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University 20th Anniversary Interview: October 23, 2008.
- [A Filson Historical Society Film – <em>The Blue Box</em>: Five Lives in Letters](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/filson-historical-society-film/): Sallie Bingham: The Blue Box: Five Lives in Letters. Recorded on May 15, 2012 at the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
- [Sallie Bingham Center: 20th Anniversary Celebration (2008)](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/sallie-bingham-center-20th-anniversary-celebration-2008/): The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture celebrated 20 years of documenting women's lives with a reception and program. October 23, 2008. Biddle Rare Book Room at Perkins Library, Duke University.
- [Kentucky’s Great Writers: Sallie Bingham](https://www.salliebingham.com/video/kentuckys-great-writers-sallie-bingham/): The Carnegie Center and Lexington Public Library present Sallie Bingham reading the short story "Red Car" from her collection Mending. A 2011 production of LPL Cable Channel 20.

## Print
- [The Woman Who Overturned an Empire by Alanna Nash](https://www.salliebingham.com/in-print/the-woman-who-overturned-an-empire-by-alanna-nash/): Sallie Bingham, The 49-year-old fiction author, playwright, feminist, and founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, was in the middle of a lunch with friends last January, when she got a phone call.
- [A Transformative Gift from from a Woman’s Health Pioneer by Laura Micham](https://www.salliebingham.com/in-print/transformative-gift-womans-health-pioneer-laura-micham/): RL Magazine, Summer 2012 Download from Duke University (available in .pdf format)
- [“New York Society Library: A Testimonial” by Sallie Bingham](https://www.salliebingham.com/in-print/new-york-society-library-testimonial-sallie-bingham/): I never fail to breathe a sigh of relief as I enter the Library's august doors and proceed up the celestial staircase, knowing that here, at least and at last, I exist as a writer.
- [Converging Circles: Creative Lives Intersect through Art and Culture](https://www.salliebingham.com/in-print/converging-circles-creative-lives-intersect-art-culture-carmella-padilla/): At impor­tant points in their lives, Sallie Bingham and Bruce McBroom each made a life-changing deci­sion to move to New Mexico. Their jour­neys were dif­fer­ent, but their destination—Santa Fe—was the same. Now full-time res­i­dents, their paths may have never con­verged but for one thing: each recently joined The Circles, a Museum of New Mexico Foundation mem­ber­ship group whose sup­port pro­vides sus­tain­able futures for our muse­ums. These are their stories.

## Translations
- [Kayısılar](https://www.salliebingham.com/translations/kayisilar/): O Haziran Caroline’in kayısı ağacı nihayet meyve verdi. Ağacın arkasındaki evde geçen altı yıl zarfında her Nisanda tomurcuklar dondan zarar görmüş ve dallarda ancak birkaç cüce kayısı kalmıştı. Komşular kayısının aslen New Mexico’nun kuzeyinde yetişmediğini, İspanyolların fethi sırasında heybelerde fidan olarak getirildiğini ve yüzyıllardır sert iklime uyum sağlayamadığını ama yok olup da gitmediğini söylediler. Kışın Caroline’in toprak yolu boyunca belli belirsiz koniler şeklinde göze batar, o ender baharlardan birinde beyaz tomurcuklar ve arılarla bezenirlerdi.
- [Itırşahiler](https://www.salliebingham.com/translations/itirsahiler/): Sorbonne’a fazla uzak olmayan bir kafede Ağustos kalabalığı içinde bir çift oturuyordu. Amerikalıydılar –herkes anlayabilirdi– rahat, hatta gelişigüzel giyinmişlerdi; elleri Amerikalılara has sahiplenme havasıyla ufak kahve fincanlarının etrafında sarılıydı. Küçük masalarında sıkışıp kalmışlardı – betonun dar uzantısına yerleştirilmiş çevre masalardaki insanların dirsekleri ve dizlerine kıyasla ikisi de uzundu.

## Writing
- [Queen](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/queen/): “She’s tiny,” my father told me when he was preparing me to meet the queen. “Don’t move suddenly, don’t try to shake her hand. Curtsey - that’s appropriate, even for an American.”
- [What I  Learned from Fat Annie](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/what-i-learned-from-fat-annie/): When Dad was courting Fat Annie, she gave us a chandelier, not a cheap wire contraption but hand-forged welded iron.
- [Going Native (1995)](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/going-native/): You don't see many Anglos at the Indian dances these days, maybe because we've shamed ourselves out of attending, or they have.
- [Bear](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/bear/): Claire first saw the brown, barren-shaped shabby old female bear when the builder were laying out the dimensions of her new house.
- [Luke](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/luke/): On Thursday Miss Nancy told Luke they were going to spend the weekend in the country.
- [My Master’s Horse](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/my-masters-horse/): I am my master's horse but he does not make me lie down in green pastures.
- [Girl Alone](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/girl-alone/): We don't see fathers often and when one arrived, with his newspaper, I felt as though our circle was complete.
- [Couvade](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/plays/couvade/): The full text of my one-man show, Couvade, first performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky in 1983.
- [Chaco](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/plays/chaco-play/): Chaco has been on my mind for years. I started a play about Willa Cather's trip to the southwest, based on a fragment from a biography; since I was not being literal, I spelled her name with one 'l'. The play is unfinished. — Sallie
- [‟Winter Term” — from Mending: New and Selected Stories](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/mending-winter-term/): They stood under the porch light and she held out her hands. He took them and slipped his fingers inside her gloves. Her palms were soft and lined.
- [Ten Favorites: The Cuckoo, He’s a Pretty Bird, He Sings As He Flies](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/ten-favorites-cuckoo-pretty-bird-sings-flies/): Once when I was seven, I saw my mother on her hands and knees in a bed of snowdrops. Not beside it. In it.
- [Old](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/old/): They were old, they had entered those years when nothing ever happens except falls, illness, approaching disability, and neither of them had planned on that when they married, when the children were born, and then the grandchildren.
- [The Day](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/day/): Best New Ending Wins a Signed Copy of Mending: New and Selected Stories! I'm opening this up to you, my readers-write your own ending to the following short story and submit it via the contact form on my website. I'll pick my favorite and the winner will also be published on my website. Entries are due on November 18. Good luck! Sallie
- [Girl and Baby in Snow](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/girl-baby-snow/): It was the baby’s first snow. He was six months old that winter, a lovely baby, the apple of his young parents’ eyes. They would have other children, with other spouses, but he would always be the first.
- [That Kind of Woman](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/kind-woman/): She was the kind of woman who said now you can have everything and then took it back.
- [Little Candlestick](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/poems/candlestick/): ornaments, for my schoolgirl words.
- [Rough Air](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/plays/rough-air/): CAST: GARY, a young man; HOWARD, a middle-aged man; SARAH, a middle-aged woman. PLACE: Three seats in a row on an airplane.
- [The Cuckoo, He’s a Pretty Bird, He Sings As He Flies](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/cuckoo-pretty-bird-sings-flies/): Once when I was seven, I saw my mother on her hands and knees in a bed of snowdrops.
- [Desert Bighorn](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/poems/desert-bighorn/): to drink.
- [Cast on Water](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/poems/cast-on-water/): The North Atlantic was not my country. Its wild waves crashed unregarding of the small girl at their edge, who knew only the soft brown Ohio hurrying
- [Art](https://www.salliebingham.com/writing/short-stories/art/): At the edge of the grassy terrace, in the shade of a big umbrella, the painter stands at his easel, tipping his brush into little pools of color.

## Venues

## Organizers

## Series
- [“When Words Really Matter”: The Art of Writing Personal Essays](https://www.salliebingham.com/event-series/when-words-really-matter-the-art-of-writing-personal-essays/)