Clara Bingham Biography
Clara Bingham is a journalist, author and documentary film producer. She has also focused on social justice and women’s issues. Her most recent book, Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost its Mind and Found its Soul, was published by Random House on May 31, 2016.
Before she began working on Witness, Bingham produced a documentary that exposed the ravages of mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia.
The Last Mountain premiered at the Sundance Film festival in 2011, screened in theaters in over 60 cities, and won the International Documentary Association’s Pare Lorentz Award.
Bingham’s second book, Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law, which she co-wrote with Laura Leedy Gansler, (Doubleday in 2002) was adapted into the 2005 feature film North Country (Warner Bros) starring Charlize Theron and Francis McDormand.
Both actresses received Oscar nominations for their roles in the film. Class Action tells the harrowing story of a group of female taconite miners in northern Minnesota who become the first women ever to sue a company as a “class” or a group, for sexual harassment.
Class Action was a Los Angeles Times best book of the year and won the AAUW Speaking Out For Justice Award.
Bingham is also the author of Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress (Times Books 1997), which chronicles the lives of four female members of the 103rd Congress following the 1992 “Year of the Woman” elections.
As a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Newsweek from 1989 to 1993, Bingham covered the George H. W. Bush White House leading up to and during the 1992 presidential election.
Her freelance writing has appeared in publications including, The Daily Beast, Ms., Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Talk, Glamour, The Washington Monthly, and United Press International, the wire service for which she wrote as a stringer from Papua New Guinea. Bingham also worked as a press secretary on the Michael Dukakis 1988 Democratic presidential campaign.
An expose about the Air Force Academy rape scandal that Bingham wrote for Vanity Fair earned her the 2004 Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) given by the National Women’s Political Caucus, and was anthologized in the Best American Crime Writing 2004 Edition.
In January 2016, Investigation Discovery’s Vanity Fair Confidential series featured Bingham in its one-hour program about the Air Force Academy rape scandal.
Bingham was born into a newspaper family in 1963 in Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to New York City in 1968. She graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in History and Literature.
In college, Bingham raced on the varsity alpine ski team for three years and served as co-news editor of The Harvard Independent. Bingham lives in New York City and has three children with her ex-husband David Michaelis. In April 2014, she married Joe Finnerty, who has three children of his own.
Clara Bingham Age And Height
Clara Bingham is a journalist, author and documentary film producer whose work has focused on social justice and women’s issues. Her most recent book, Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost its Mind and Found its Soul, was published by Random House on May 31, 2016.
She was born in 1963, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. She is 56 years old as of 2019. Her height is still under review.
Clara Bingham Early Life And Education
Bingham was born in 1963 into a newspaper family in Louisville, Kentucky. She moved to New York City in 1968. She completed high school at the Madeira School in 1981.
He also graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in History and Literature. At Harvard, she served as co-news editor of the Harvard Independent.
Clara Bingham Personal life
Bingham lives in New York City and has three children with her ex-husband, biographer David Michaelis. In April 2014, she married Joseph Finnerty, a lawyer, who has three children of his own.
Clara Bingham Married And Husband
Her marital status is not known.
Clara Bingham Career
Bingham’s most recent book, Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul (2016), was named one of the best books of 2016 by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and one of the 40 best books of 2016 by the New York Post.
Her second book, Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (co-written with Laura Leedy Gansler 1999) which was adapted into the 2005 feature film North Country.
Class Action was a 2002 Los Angeles Times best book of the year and won the AAUW Speaking Out For Justice Award in 2007. Bingham’s first book was Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress(1996).
As a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Newsweek magazine from 1989 to 1993, Bingham covered the George H. W. Bush administration leading up to and during the 1992 presidential election.
Her writing has appeared widely in publications including, most recently, Vanity Fair, Lit Hub, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Spectator, The Daily Beast, and many others.
She also worked as a stringer for United Press International in Papua New Guinea, and as a press secretary for the 1988 presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis.
Bingham wrote an exposé about the Air Force Academy rape scandal for Vanity Fair in 2003, which earned her the 2004 Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) given by the National Women’s Political Caucus.
The article was anthologized in the 2004 edition of Best American Crime Writing. In January 2016, Investigation Discovery’s Vanity Fair Confidential series featured Bingham in its one-hour program about the rape scandal.
While reporting a story in West Virginia, Bingham, a Kentucky native, witnessed the destructive effects of mountaintop removal coal mining for the first time.
Afterward, she spent several years producing The Last Mountain (directed by Bill Haney), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011, screened in theaters in over 60 American cities, and won the International Documentary Association’s Pare Lorentz Award.
Clara Bingham Works
Nonfiction
- True events
- Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress (1996)
- Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (1999), co-written with Laura Leedy Gansler
- Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul (2016).
Clara Bingham Net Worth
Her net worth is still under review.
About InformationCradle Editorial Staff
This Article is produced by InformationCradle Editorial Staff which is a team of expert writers and editors led by Josphat Gachie and trusted by millions of readers worldwide.
We endeavor to keep our content True, Accurate, Correct, Original and Up to Date. For complain, correction or an update, please send us an email to informationcradle@gmail.com. We promise to take corrective measures to the best of our abilities.
