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A most unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother’s years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy,...

Sally Bingham, heiress to a third of the Bingham millions and to four generations of family tradition and turmoil, tells the entire tangled Bingham family history as could only a member of the family. 65 pages of photos.

Prolific writer: This is Sallie Bingham's sixteenth book, and some of her previous books have come out with major publishers like Houghton Mifflin and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Wide following throughout country, with media coverage over the years in Vanity Fair, LA Times, New Yorker, NYT, etc., Important and socially relevant content matter: Bingham is an active feminist (having also founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women) and her works ref...

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Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day." -Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropistIn T...

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This Sallie Bingham Reader captures the spirit of Bingham's illustrious writing career via short stories, a novella, and a play.

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Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day." -Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropistIn T...

A family history centered around three generations of women spans the Civil War through the Jazz Age.

Mending collects stories from four books and includes six new ones, representing the best of Bingham's 50-year career.

Mending collects stories from four books and includes six new ones, representing the best of Bingham's 50-year career.

Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucible for the transformation of her guests. Eccentric and charming, with a lover from the Pueblo and lots of turquoise and broomstick skirts, Cory finds her guests, mainly skiers and tourists, bewilde...

Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucible for the transformation of her guests. Eccentric and charming, with a lover from the Pueblo and lots of turquoise and broomstick skirts, Cory finds her guests, mainly skiers and tourists, bewilde...

Melanie is a dancer--the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late in life, she decides to pursue one dream, a dream she can't afford, which her husband opposes: she will become a skilled ballroom dancer, moving to the old love songs that have never applied to her life. And she wants to learn to lead! As she takes lessons, scrapes up the money ...

Melanie is a dancer--the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late in life, she decides to pursue one dream, a dream she can't afford, which her husband opposes: she will become a skilled ballroom dancer, moving to the old love songs that have never applied to her life. And she wants to learn to lead! As she takes lessons, scrapes up the money ...

Wise, subtle stories that travel from Paris to Santa Fe.

(Sallie) Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and transgressive."-Paula Fox "Restrained and wise, these lovely stories unfold like lavender-scented linens, quieting the fretful mind."-Joe Ashby Porter Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with "Red Car, " a collection written in her signature style-discreet, sly prose circling taboo subje...