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Bishop, Michael, 1945-2023

LC control no.n 79054724
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3552.I772
Personal name headingBishop, Michael, 1945-2023
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Variant(s)Bishop, Michael (Novelist)
See alsoFor works of this author written in collaboration with Paul Di Filippo, search also under Lawson, Philip
Lawson, Philip
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Other standard no.0000 0001 1991 7191
8196901
Q953288
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1945-11-12
Death date2023-11-13
Place of birthLincoln (Neb.)
Place of deathLaGrange (Ga.)
Field of activityScience fiction
AffiliationUniversity of Georgia LaGrange College (LaGrange, Ga.)
Profession or occupationWriters Novelists University and college faculty members
Found inAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees, c1976.
Blooded on Arachne, c1981: t.p. (Michael Bishop) CIP data sheet (b. 1945)
Muskrat courage, 2000: CIP t.p. (Philip Lawson) pub. info. (joint pseudonym of Michael Bishop and Paul Di Filippo)
The writers directory 1994-96 (Michael Bishop, American, born 1945)
Internet speculative fiction database 3 December 2014 (Michael Bishop; full name: Michael Lawson Bishop; born 12 November 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska)
New York Times, December 12, 2023, accessed via WWW, December 13, 2023 (Michael Bishop; science-fiction author; d. Nov. 13, 2023, LaGrange, Georgia)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/books/michael-bishop-dead.html>
New York times, Dec. 17, 2023: in an obituary on page 25 (Michael Bishop; born Michael Lawson Bishop on Nov. 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska, died Nov. 13 [2023] in LaGrange, Ga., aged 78; an author who was best known for his award-winning science fiction but who ranged far beyond the genre, venturing into realism, noir mystery and even Southern Gothic; taught English at the University of Georgia in Athens and later at LaGrange College in Georgia; his later work ranged broadly. Bishop co-wrote two noir mystery novels with Paul Di Filippo, both under a single pseudonym, Philip Lawson)
Associated languageeng