Michael Bishop
Dates:
November 12, 1945—November 13, 2023
Georgia Connections
LaGrange, Troup County
Writer-in-Residence, LaGrange College, near his home in Pine Mountain.
Bishop was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall Of Fame in 2018.
Notes of Interest
Michael Bishop was one of America's finest and most honored writers of science fiction and fantasy literature. Writing over four decades, he produced more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories, won the highest awards for his work and had his books translated into a dozen languages. He won two of the prestigious Nebula Awards, four Locus Awards and most recently a Shirley Jackson Award for one of his short stories.
Michael Bishop was born November 12, 1945, in Lincoln, Nebraska, but he has many connections to the state of Georgia. He held a BA (1965) and MA (1967) in English from the University of Georgia, and taught briefly at UGA before leaving teaching to become a full-time writer in 1974. He was named Writer-in-Residence at LaGrange College in 1996. He made his home at nearby Pine Mountain.
Bishop was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall Of Fame in 2018.
Bishop appeared in an on-line discussion on October 8, 2021 featuring Brock Adams, author of Ember, Gulf, and Apocalypse Yesterday. This discussion was part of our On My Mind series, a partnership with Read SC - The South Carolina Center for the Book.
