Sallie Bingham: 6 books

“A memoir of three generations of women rich in historical detail” —from the Civil War to the Jazz Age (Kirkus Reviews)   Shortly after her mother’s death in 2011, Sallie Bingham discovered a blue box in her mother’s closet containing the forgotten remnants of her foremothers’ lives....

“Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human” in these eleven stories of love, sex, and indiscretion (Paula Fox).   In her bracing new collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day transgressions in affairs of the heart, “focus[ing] mostly on the lives of...

A dozen “vibrant . . . strikingly perceptive” stories about love—romantic, familial, comedic, and tragic, by the celebrated novelist and playwright (Booklist). Crossing a range of landscapes and eras, spanning age and gender, and circling taboos with a sly wit, “these 12 luminous stories...

A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s...

Bingham has 50 years of experience as a writer and promoter of her own work, with deep inroads and relationships in the bookselling and library communities Former Director of the NBCC Bingham's family owned the major daily in Kentucky, and her part in that paper's sale has made her a...

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....