Sallie Bingham

Sallie Bingham is an American author, playwright, poet, teacher, feminist activist and philanthropist. Her first novel, After Such Knowledge, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1960. It was followed by six collections of short stories; her latest, to be published in September 2025 by Turtle Point Press, is titled How Daddy Lost His Ear: And Other Stories. She also published six additional novels, three collections of poetry, numerous plays (produced off-Broadway and regionally), and two family memoirs, Passion and Prejudice (Knopf, 1989) and Little Brother (Sarabande Books, 2022). She received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Bingham worked as a book editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville and was a director of the National Book Critics Circle. She was the 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. Bingham died at the age of eighty-eight on August 6, 2025.

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