Joan Bingham
American editor
About Joan Bingham
Lived 1935 – 2020 (aged 85).
Joan Bingham (March 5, 1935 – October 31, 2020) was a co-founder and long-time executive editor of independent publishing house Grove Atlantic.
Biography Bingham was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Edward and Helen Williamson Stevens. Her father was the chief executive of United Oil Company in Pittsburgh. Bingham graduated in art history from Connecticut College in 1957 and received a master's in European history from Georgetown University in the 1980s.
Bingham married Robert Worth Bingham III in 1960. Robert died in a freak accident in 1966.
She was briefly married to George Packard in the late 1970s. James Chace was a long time companion of Bingham.
Bingham helped found the Grove Atlantic in 1993 and was instrumental in acquiring and publishing writers including Kiran Desai and Kay Ryan.
Her son Robert died from a drug overdose in 1999.
She died in Manhattan from pneumonia.
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American editor
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Joan Bingham was born on 5 March 1935 in Steubenville.
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Joan Bingham died on 31 October 2020 in Manhattan.
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