Robert Bingham (writer)

Robert Bingham ( b. 1966; † 28 November 1999) was an American writer and founding editor of Open City Magazine.

Bingham made ​​in 1988 graduated from the prestigious Brown University. Connecting he completed a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University. His fiction and non-fiction texts appeared in The New Yorker, and for two years he worked as a reporter for Cambodia Daily. In 1999 he married. Six months later, at the age of 33 years, Bingham died of a heroin overdose. In his honor, the PEN American Center donated a named after him, doped with $ 35,000 prize for the most talented literary debuts. Bingham was close friends with 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)