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Daytime Talk Series: You Have Everything You Need: Using Family Letters in Memoir with Sallie Bingham

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 10:00 AM | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of Charge | Advance Registration Required

When we come into possession of family letters, we may initially not know what to do with them. Sallie Bingham will discuss using techniques of fiction and research to both use and transcend the purely personal.

Sallie Bingham is the author of The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters (Sarabande, 2014), about a collection of letters from long-forgotten relatives found in the top of her mother's closet after she died. She is also the author of the memoir Passion and Prejudice, as well as six novels, the short story collections Mending, Transgressions, and Red Car, several collections of poetry, and numerous plays. She is working on a biography of Doris Duke.

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The Writing Life events in 2014 were generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.