Robert Bingham (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Bingham (writer)

American writer

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1966

Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 28-Nov-1999

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Robert Bingham (writer)

  • Robert Worth Bingham IV (March 14, 1966 – November 28, 1999) was an American writer and a founding editor of the Open City Magazine.A member of a wealthy family from Louisville, Kentucky, his great-grandfather was the politician and newspaper publisher Robert Worth Bingham, and his grandfather, Barry Bingham, Sr., went into the family newspaper businesses as an editor and publisher.
  • Bingham's father, Robert Worth Bingham III (known by his middle name), who also worked in the family business and was expected to take over, was killed aged 34 in a car accident while on vacation at Cape Cod in 1966, when his son was only three months old.Bingham graduated from Brown University in 1988.
  • He then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.
  • His fiction and non-fiction appeared in The New Yorker, and he worked for two years as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily.
  • He wrote the short story collection Pure Slaughter Value and the novel Lightning on the Sun. Bingham died of a heroin overdose at age 33 on November 28, 1999, six months after marrying Vanessa Scharven Chase, a Harvard graduate art historian, and five months before the publication of his novel.
  • In Robert Bingham's honor, the PEN American Center has established the PEN/Robert W.
  • Bingham Prize, which awards $25,000 to the most exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement.Bingham was a close friend of musician Stephen Malkmus; Malkmus played a show at Bingham's wedding, and served as an usher at his funeral.
  • The title of "Church on White," a song from Malkmus's debut album, Stephen Malkmus, refers to Bingham's old New York City address.Bingham was also a friend of poet/musician David Berman (leader of the band Silver Jews); the song "Death Of An Heir of Sorrows", from Silver Jews' 2001 album Bright Flight, is an elegy for Bingham.

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