Clara Bingham | |
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Born | 1963 Louisville, Kentucky |
Residence | Manhattan, New York |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Journalist, author, producer |
Years active | 1985-present |
Spouse(s) | David Michaelis (1993-2007), Joseph Finnerty (2014-present) |
Children | 3 |
Website | http://www.clarabingham.com |
Clara Bingham (born 1963) is an American journalist, author and documentary film producer.
Bingham was born in 1963 into a newspaper family in Louisville, Kentucky. She moved to New York City in 1968. She 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.
She has written three books: Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul (2016),Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (co-written with Laura Leedy Gansler 2002) 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 (1997).
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, The Daily Beast,Vanity Fair,Ms.,Vogue,Talk Magazine, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Monthly. She also worked as a stringer for United Press International in Papua New Guinea. Bingham also worked as a press secretary for the 1988 presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis.