Clara Bingham

Clara Bingham
Born1963 (age 62–63)
Louisville, Kentucky
OccupationsJournalist, author
Years active1985–present
Websitewww.clarabingham.com

Clara Bingham (born 1963) is an American journalist and author.

Early life and education

Bingham was born in 1963 into a newspaper family founded by Robert Worth Bingham in Louisville, Kentucky. She moved to New York City in 1968. She completed high school at the Madeira School in 1981, and graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in History and Literature. At Harvard, she served as co-news editor of the Harvard Independent.

Career

Bingham's most recent book The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973 was published July 30, 2024, by One Signal Publishers (a division of Simon & Schuster), and is an Amazon best seller. Published in 2016, Bingham's third book, Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul (2016), was named one of the best books of 2016 by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and one of the 40 best books of 2016 by the New York Post. Bingham is featured in the six-episode ABC series 1969. Her second book, Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (co-written with Laura Leedy Gansler 1999) which was adapted into the 2005 feature film North Country. Class Action was a 2002 Los Angeles Times best book of the year and won the AAUW Speaking Out For Justice Award in 2007. Bingham's first book was Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress (1996).

As a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Newsweek magazine from 1989 to 1993, Bingham covered the George H. W. Bush administration leading up to and during the 1992 presidential election. Her writing has appeared widely in publications including, most recently, Vanity Fair, Lit Hub, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Spectator, The Daily Beast, and many others. She also worked as a stringer for United Press International in Papua New Guinea, and as a press secretary for the 1988 presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis.

Bingham wrote an exposé about the Air Force Academy rape scandal for Vanity Fair in 2003, which earned her the 2004 Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) given by the National Women's Political Caucus. The article was anthologized in the 2004 edition of Best American Crime Writing. In January 2016, Investigation Discovery's Vanity Fair Confidential series featured Bingham in its one-hour program about the rape scandal.

While reporting a story in West Virginia, Bingham, a Kentucky native, witnessed the destructive effects of mountaintop removal coal mining for the first time. Afterwards, she spent several years producing The Last Mountain (directed by Bill Haney), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011, screened in theaters in over 60 American cities, and won the International Documentary Association's Pare Lorentz Award.

Personal life

Bingham has three children with her ex-husband, biographer David Michaelis. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Joseph Finnerty, a lawyer, who has three children of his own.

Works

Nonfiction

True events
  • Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress (1996)
  • Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (1999), co-written with Laura Leedy Gansler
  • Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul (2016)
  • The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963–1973. New York: Atria/One Signal Publishers. July 30, 2024. ISBN 9781982144210. OCLC 1428742933.

References

  1. ↑ Kate Tuttle, Clara Bingham on "Witness to the Revolution", Boston Globe (June 17, 2016).
  2. 1 2 Susan Tifft & Alex S. Jones (1991). The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty. Summit Books. pp. 506–07.
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  8. ↑ Holmes, Anna (August 6, 2024). "An Oral History of Second-Wave Feminism Makes Its Case With Style". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ Bhatia, Sara (August 25, 2024). "A New Look at the Feminist Earthquake". Washington Monthly. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
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  11. ↑ Wiener, Jon (June 8, 2016). "'Witness to the Revolution,' by Clara Bingham". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  12. ↑ Burrough, Bryan (June 10, 2016). "On the Eve of Destruction". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
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  16. ↑ Bingham, Clara; Gansler, Laura Leedy (October 14, 2003). Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (Reprint ed.). New York: Anchor. ISBN 9780385496131.
  17. ↑ "Nonfiction". Los Angeles Times. December 8, 2002. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  18. ↑ Holly Kearl (August 20, 2008). "Inspired by Class Action". AAUW Dialog.
  19. ↑ TUMULTY, KAREN (January 12, 1997). "Human, All Too Human : WOMEN ON THE HILL. By Clara Bingham . Times Books: 208 pp., $21". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
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  22. ↑ Bingham, Clara (April 14, 2017). "No Regrets Fifty Years After The Resistance". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  23. ↑ Bingham, Clara (May 23, 2016). "Anger Redux". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  24. ↑ Bingham, Clara (February 12, 2017). "Hell No review: celebration of Vietnam protests can inform resistance to Trump". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  25. ↑ "Is Trump Our New Vietnam? | Washington Spectator". Washington Spectator. January 31, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  26. ↑ "Clara Bingham". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
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  28. ↑ Bingham, Clara. "Code of Dishonor". Vanity Fair. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
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  30. ↑ Penzler, Otto; Cook, Thomas H. (2004). The Best American Crime Writing: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting (2004 ed.). New York: Vintage. ISBN 9780375713026.
  31. ↑ "Investigation Discovery's New Season of Vanity Fair Confidential Digs Deep into the Magazine's Most Thrilling True Crime Stories". Discovery Communications, Inc. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  32. ↑ "Under Mined" by Clara Bingham, Washington Monthly (January 2005).
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  34. ↑ "The Last Mountain Movie". thelastmountainmovie.com. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  35. ↑ "2011 Pare Lorentz Award Winner: 'The Last Mountain'". International Documentary Association. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  36. ↑ Shnayerson, Michael. "Hall of Fame: The Last Mountain". Vanity Fair. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
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  38. ↑ "WEDDINGS; Clara Bingham, David Michaelis". The New York Times. June 27, 1993. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  39. ↑ vCard. "Joseph Finnerty III | DLA Piper". www.dlapiper.com. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  40. ↑ Laskey, Margaux (April 27, 2014). "A Conversation Began and Never Stopped". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 4, 2016.