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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Bingham (1966 - November 28, 1999) was an American writer and a founding editor of the Open City Magazine. Bingham graduated from Brown University in 1988. He then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. His fiction and non-fiction appeared in The New Yorker, and he worked for two years as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily. He wrote the short story collection Pure Slaughter Value and the novel Lightning on the Sun. Robert Bingham died of a heroin overdose at age 33 on November 28, 1999, six months after getting married and five months before the publication of his novel. In Robert Bingham's honor, the PEN American Center has established the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers, which awards $35,000 to the most exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement. Bingham was a close friend of musician Stephen Malkmus; the title of Church on White, a song from Malkmus's debut album, Stephen Malkmus, refers to Bingham's old New York City address.

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