Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader - Paperback
by Sallie Bingham (Author)
This rich and accomplished collection showcases the range of a writer at the height of her powers. From the complex stories of artistic influence and the exhilaration and fright of solitude, to the incendiary rage of a betrayed young wife who sacrifices everything for revenge, to the struggles for independence of the three women who surrounded Ezra Pound like subservient stars, these fictions seize the reader's attention while slashing stereotypes.
This Sallie Bingham Reader captures the spirit of the author's illustrious writing career via short stories, a novella, and a play.Sallie Bingham is the author of fifteen books, including most recently Treason: a Sallie Bingham Reader; Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke; The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters; and Mending: New & Selected Short Stories. The latter collection won a Gold Medal in Fiction from Foreword Magazine in 2012 and she's been included in both Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her nine plays have all been produced, including the one in this book, Treason, directed by Martin Platt at the Perry Street Theater in New York City. Bingham is founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History at Duke University, publisher of The American Voice, from 1989 to 1998 and Book Editor at The Courier Journal from 1983-1989. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, along with many other honors. She lives in Santa Fe with her dog Pip.
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