Sallie Bingham

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, from Sarabande Books in 2011, is titled Mending: New and Selected Stories. 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). 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 has been mar­ried three times: to pub­lisher A. Whitney Ellsworth (1908–1980), attor­ney Michael Iovenko (1930–1971), and con­trac­tor Tim Peters. She has three sons and five grand­chil­dren, and cur­rently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.