The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
Written by Sallie Bingham
Narrated by Donna Postel
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About this audiobook
Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father's fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights.
Sallie Bingham
Sallie Bingham is the author of seventeen books, including Little Brother: A Memoir, Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader, Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, and Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir. She is winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, Foreword Magazine's Gold Medal in Fiction for Mending: New & Selected Short Stories, and her work has been included in Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Bingham is founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History at Duke University. She was publisher of The American Voice from 1989 to 1998 and book editor at The Courier Journal from 1983 to 1989. She lives in Santa Fe.
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