A member of a wealthy family from Louisville, Kentucky, his great-grandfather was the politician and newspaper publisher Robert Worth Bingham,[3] and his grandfather, Barry Bingham, Sr., went into the family newspaper businesses as an editor and publisher.[2] 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,[5] was killed aged 34 in a car accident while on vacation at Cape Cod in 1966, when his son was only three months old.[3][6]
After graduating from Columbia, 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.[8]
Personal lifeedit
Bingham died of a heroinoverdose at age 33 on November 28, 1999, six months after marrying Vanessa Scharven Chase, daughter of Theodore Chase Jr, professor of biochemistry at Cook College, Rutgers University[9] a Harvard graduate art historian,[3] and five months before the publication of his novel.[10]
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.[11] The title of "Church on White," a song from Malkmus's debut album, Stephen Malkmus, refers to Bingham's old New York City address.[11][12]
Bingham was also a friend of the late 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.[13]
Legacyedit
In 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.[14]
^PEN American Center - PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers Updated 2004. Accessed September 21, 2006.
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