Back in Palm Beach After a Hundred Years
Augustus Mayhew reports on the return of the Bingham family.
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Irrepressible in Palm Beach March 23, 2:30
Raised like a princess in one of the South’s most powerful families, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character and became the relative no one wanted to talk about. That is, until her great-niece discovered trunks filled with nearly […]
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IRREPRESSIBLE out in PAPERBACK and featured on NYTBR Paperback Row
“IRREPRESSIBLE: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham, by Emily Bingham. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16.) Henrietta, the author’s violet-eyed, statuesque great-aunt, had a capacity to make men and women fall in love with her. In this biography, Bingham tracks her great-aunt’s life, which coincided with a brief period in the 1900s when unconventional desires […]
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Irrepressible Awarded 2016 LAMBDA Literary Award
The 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were chosen from a record 933 submissions (up from 818 last year) from 321 publishers. The winners were announced at a gala ceremony June 6, 2016 in New York City.
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Irrepressible Nominated for Plutarch Award
A distinguished panel of judges made up of members of Biographers International Organization (BIO) has selected ten nominees for the 2015 Plutarch Award. The Plutarch is the only international literary award presented to biography, by biographers. Following the announcement of the ten nominees, BIO’s Plutarch Committee will next narrow the list to four finalists. BIO […]
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Kirkus selects Irrepressible as a best book of 2015
Henrietta Bingham is now officially a “significant figure” in the arts and humanities! What would she say, I wonder?
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Book Talk at Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum, Saturday January 24, 2pm
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Irrepressible now available in audio
For you and all your friends who love to listen, Henrietta as narrated by Christina Delaine is perfection. Add a little Jelly Roll or Ma Rainey and you’ll be totally set up.
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Ed Kosner praises Irrepressible
“Emily Bingham’s painstaking reconstruction of Henrietta’s story shows that she was a pioneer of sorts—a poignant case of a life unspooled before the world was ready for her odd grace.”
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Liesl Schillinger on Henrietta Bingham and her wildly mesmerizing world.
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“Jazz Age heartbreaker who broke all the rules”–Washington Post Salutes Irrepressible
“Against the disapproving silence of her family, Bingham sets a bouquet of lovers’ odes…”
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Garden and Gun Daily Shot: “The Wild Southern Belle You’ve Never Heard of … Til Now”
Every family has its secrets—a recipe or fishing spot, perhaps. But for the storied Bingham family, of Louisville, Kentucky, the secrets could fill volumes…
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Filling in the Bloomsbury Puzzle: Biographer Anne Chisolm praises Irrepressible
“The Binghams appear like Tennessee Williams characters, their lives ravaged by alcohol, secrets, and sudden death.”
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Dallas Morning News praises Irrepressible
“With a revolving celebrity cast, Irrepressible takes place against a tapestry of the 20th century from 1901 to 1968. We invade the privacy of a glamorous, illustrious clan with enough tragedy, turmoil and feuding for a prime-time TV series. And though Henrietta never genuflected to convention, we feel the cold, numbing fear of discovery in […]
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The Daily Beast on Henrietta, Secret Lothario of the Jazz Age
Had Fitzgerald met Henrietta Bingham “she would have inspired a Jazz Age anti-heroine more beguiling than Daisy Buchanan and Nicole Diver combined.”
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