About

Sallie Bingham is a writer, teacher, feminist activist, and philanthropist.

Sallie’s first novel was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961. It was followed by four collections of short stories; her most recent book, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in April, 2020, is titled The Silver Swan: In search of Doris Duke. Sarabande Books will publish Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader in August, 2020, a collection consisting of short stories, a novella and a play. She has also published six additional novels, three collections of poetry, numerous plays (produced off-Broadway and regionally), and the well-known family memoir, Passion and Prejudice (Knopf, 1989).

Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, New Letters, Plainswoman, Plainsong, Greensboro Review, Negative Capability, The Connecticut Review, and Southwest Review, among others, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Forty Best Stories from Mademoiselle, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Sallie has worked as a book editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville and has been a director of the National Book Critics Circle. She is founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which published The American Voice, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University.

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Sallie currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Other Works

  • The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters

    2014
  • Mending: New and Selected Stories

    2011
  • If in Darkness

    2010
  • Red Car

    2008
  • The Hub of the Miracle

    2006
  • Nick of Time

    2006
  • Cory’s Feast

    2005
  • Transgressions: Stories

    2002
  • Straight Man

    1996
  • Matron of Honor

    1994
  • Upstate

    1993
  • Small Victories

    1993
  • Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir

    1989
  • The Way It Is Now

    1972
  • The Touching Hand

    1967
  • After Such Knowledge

    1960