Sallie Bingham, Kentucky writer and philanthropist, dies at 88

Sallie Bingham (Photo by Camila Motta)

Sallie Bingham, whose family owned the Louisville Courier Journal for nearly seven decades before its 1986 sale made national headlines, has died in New Mexico. She was 88.

Bingham, who grew up in Louisville amid the wealth and influence of one of the nation’s most prominent newspaper families, had lived in Sante Fe, New Mexico, since 1991 where she continued her work as a writer, philanthropist and supporter of women’s causes…

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