Robert Bingham

Robert Worth Bingham (born March 14, 1966 in Louisville , Kentucky , † November 28, 1999 in New York City ) was an American writer and co-editor of Open City Magazine and in 1999 founder of Open City Books .

Bingham graduated from the prestigious Brown University in 1988 . He then earned a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University . His fictional and factual texts appeared in The New Yorker , and he worked as a reporter for Cambodia Daily for two years . In 1999 he married. Six months later, at the age of 33, Bingham died of a heroin overdose . In his honor, the PEN American Center donated the $ 25,000 (2016) Robert W. Bingham Prize for work on the second work of a particularly talented literary debutante. Bingham was close friends with the musician Stephen Malkmus ; the song title Church on White refers to Bingham's address in New York City.

Works

• Pure Slaughter Value (Short Stories, 1997)
• Lightning on the Sun (novel, 2000)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary: Robert Bingham , independent.co.uk, December 8, 1999; Retrieved February 4, 2016
2. ↑ OPEN CITY
3. ↑ BAM: Obituaries, The Classes, March / April 2000 ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Stacey D'Erasmo. Wasted - New York Times - April 23, 2000.
5. ^ Robert W. Bingham Prize on pen.org, accessed February 4, 2016