To my friends, thank you and more soon about Hopscotch.
If you haven’t been keeping up with recent comments on Facebook like those above, you might be interested in the following links (from oldest to newest):
Letter to the Editor, The Courier-Journal, 2/19/2024
What Do I Have in Common With Elon Musk?
And as a reminder, I would like to hear a reaction from any woman who has used Hopscotch House in the past. Please reach out via my contact form.
A long and fruitful career as a writer began in 1960 with the publication of Sallie Bingham's novel, After Such Knowledge. This was followed by 15 collections of short stories in addition to novels, memoirs and plays, as well as the 2020 biography The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke.
Her latest book, Taken by the Shawnee, is a work of historical fiction published by Turtle Point Press in June of 2024. Her previous memoir, Little Brother, was published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Her short story, "What I Learned From Fat Annie" won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize in 2023 and the story "How Daddy Lost His Ear," from her forthcoming short story collection How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories (September 23, 2025), received second prize in the 2023 Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition.
She is an active and involved feminist, working for women’s empowerment, who founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which gives grants to Kentucky artists and writers who are feminists, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, and the Women’s Project and Productions in New York City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sallie's complete biography is available here.
Sallie, I have fond memories of helping you create the Kentucky Foundation for Women and I recall advising you, then, to carefully choose folks who keep alive the flame and not just the cash register! I think we were somewhat spoiled by Wren and Judy. I would like to see the KFW letter that sparked the reappraisal, if you will share it with me. I’m thinking of Oscar Wilde’s prescient quote: « I don’t know why he hates me. I never did anything for him. »