William Henry Bishop
William Henry Bishop (January 7, 1847[1]-1928)[2] was an American novelist.[3]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Hartford, Connecticut,[2] and graduated from Yale University in 1867,[3] where he later went on to teach.[4]
He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature in 1918.
Works
[edit]The best-known of his novels and sketches are: Detmold (1879); The House of a Merchant Prince (1882); Choy Susan and Other Stories (1884); Fish and Men in the Maine Islands (1885); The Golden Justice (1887); The Brownstone Boy and Other Queer People (1888); A House Hunter in Europe (1893); Writing to Rosina (1894). Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces (1883) is a book of travel.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ BISHOP, William Henry in Who's Who in America (1926 edition); p. 280
- ^ a b "William Henry Bishop (1847–1928)". Bartleby.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b c This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
- ^ Bishop, William Henry in Who's Who in America (1901-02 edition); p. 96; via archive.org
External links
[edit]- William Henry Bishop papers (MS 83). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]
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