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Sallie Bingham (born 22 January 1937) is an American author, playwright, poet, and feminist activist.

Sallie Bingham’s first novel was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961. It was followed by four collections of short stories; her next, forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2011, will be a "New and Selected" collection. She has also published four additional novels, two collections of poetry, and the well-known family memoir, Passion and Prejudice (Knopf, 1989). Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, New Letters, Plainswoman, Plainsong, The Greensboro Review, Negative Capability, The Connecticut Review, and Southwest Review, among others. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Forty Best Stories from Mademoiselle, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Bingham 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, Bingham has been married three times, and has three sons and five grandchildren. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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