August 7, 2025: "Sallie Bingham, Author at the Center of a Newspaper Drama, Dies at 88" NY Times

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  • Sallie Bingham

    Envisioning the Future of the Sallie Bingham Center

    William R. Perkins Library Room 217, Durham, NC, United States

    The Bingham Center will host an evening with author, playwright, teacher and feminist activist Sallie Bingham, who will reflect on 25 years of documenting women’s history at Duke and offer her vision for the Center’s next 25 years, and Rachel Seidman, Associate Director, Southern Oral History Program, at UNC-Chapel Hill and visiting lecturer in Women’s Studies at Duke University, who will give her perspective on Bingham Center contributions to preservation, teaching, and activism.

  • Kentucky Foundation For Women

    Participatory Artist Enrichment Grant Workshop – Grayson

    Carter County Public Library 446 Kentucky 7, Grayson, KY, United States

    All workshops include networking time and discussions of feminism, art for social change and grant application components. Free and open to the public. Healthy snacks or light meal provided.

  • Kentucky Foundation For Women

    Participatory Artist Enrichment Grant Workshop – Hopkinsville

    Hopkinsville-Christian Counrty Public Library 1101 Bethel St., Hopkinsville, KY, United States

    All workshops include networking time and discussions of feminism, art for social change and grant application components. Free and open to the public. Healthy snacks or light meal provided.

  • Memories: Blue Box

    The Blue Box To Be Published by Sarabande Books

    Unnamed Venue , United States

    My latest work, entitled The Blue Box, will be published in August of 2014 by Sarabande Books. From roughly 2008—2011 (I think—time has a way of lengthening, then shortening dramatically),   

  • Kentucky Foundation For Women

    Participatory Artist Enrichment Grant Workshop – Lexington

    Lexington Public Library - Central Library 140 East Main Street, Lexington, KY, United States

    All workshops include networking time and discussions of feminism, art for social change and grant application components. Free and open to the public. Healthy snacks or light meal provided.

  • Risk & Reinvention

    Risk & Reinvention: How Women Are Changing The World

    Drury Plaza Hotel 228 E. Palace Ave., Santa Fe, NM, United States

    More than three hundred women and men will gather at this Symposium to explore women’s accomplishments, challenges and opportunities across disciplines, ethnicities and generations.

  • The Blue Box

    Reading from The Blue Box at Carmichaels

    Carmichael's Bookstore - Frankfort 2720 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY, United States

    Sallie will be reading from her new book, The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters.

  • The Blue Box

    Reading from The Blue Box at The New York Society Library

    The New York Society Library 53 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

    When we come into possession of family letters, we may initially not know what to do with them. Sallie Bingham will discuss using techniques of fiction and research to both use and transcend the purely personal.

  • The Blue Box

    Reading from The Blue Box at Harvardwood

    The Players 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United States

    Sallie will be reading from her new book, The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters.

  • SOMOS

    SOMOS 2015 Winter Writers Series

    Harwood Museum Arthur Bell Auditorium 238 Ledoux Street, Taos, NM, United States

    I'll be reading from The Blue Box as part of the SOMOS 2015 Winter Writers Series with Cecil Dawkins, author of A Woman of the Century, Frances Minerva Nunnery (1898-1997).

  • Literary Volunteers of Santa Fe

    Santa Fe Reads

    James A. Little Theatre 1060 Cerrilos Rd., Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Readings and discussions with five nationally acclaimed authors, all residents of Northern New Mexico... Celebrating the transformational possibilities of literacy. Featuring Sallie Bingham, Natalie Goldberg, Anne Hillerman, John Nichols and Valerie Plame. Moderated by Mary-Charlotte, host of RadioCafé on KSFR.

    $15
  • Western Kentucky University

    Creative Writing Reading Series: Sallie Bingham

    Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY, United States

    I will be reading from The Blue Box and discussing using family materials for memoir, courtesy of the English department.

  • Southern Kentucky Book Fest

    Kentucky Writers Conference

    Knicely Center 2355 Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY, United States

    I'll be appearing at the Kentucky Writers Conference on a panel to discuss The Blue Box and using family materials for memoir, courtesy of the English department of Western Kentucky University.

  • Women Writing Women's Lives

    “Telling the Story” – WWWL Panel

    CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    I'll be appearing with Betty Boyd Caroli, Ruth Franklin and Gail Levin, in a panel on “Telling the Story”: “In writing about non-traditional subjects, biographers are introducing new questions about domestic life, sexuality, female ambition–as well as new narrative techniques and approaches.”

  • Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing

    Kentucky Room, Kentucky Museum 1400 Kentucky St., Bowling Green, KY, United States

    The Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing is a contest hosted annually by WKU and is open to students in an English major or minor as well as those in creative writing classes.

  • The Blue Box (2014)

    Weaving the Past into the Present

    Thomas D. Clark History Center 100 W. Broadway, Frankfort, KY, United States

    My experience of discovering letters, diaries and writings left by my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, which became The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters.

  • Sallie Bingham - 2015

    2015 Kentucky Book Fair

    Frankfort Convention Center 405 Mero St., Frankfort, KY, United States

    I'll be attending the Kentucky Book Fair on Nov. 14, all day from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at the Frankfort Convention Center.

  • Morehead State University

    Wilma Grote Symposium for the Advancement of Women

    Morehead State University Adron Doran University Center, E 2nd St., Morehead, KY, United States

    I am honored to be the featured speaker for the 8th Annual Wilma Grote Symposium for the Advancement of Women. The theme this year is "Moving to the Front."

  • Sallie Bingham - 2015

    The Santa Fe Artist Series

    St. John's College Santa Fe - Peterson Student Center

    Sallie Bingham will be reading from her forthcoming biography of Doris Duke, entitled Doris Duke: The Invention of the New Woman, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    Free
  • Doris Duke - Glamour Puss

    Writing Biography from a Personal Point of View

    The Church of the Holy Faith 311 E. Palace Ave., Santa Fe, NM, United States

    This talk will be based the experience of writing my latest work, Doris Duke: The Invention of the New Woman.

    Free
 
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