John Peale Bishop's reputation as a writer does not rest upon his works of fiction. His modest output of poetry and the appearance of his essays and reviews in the leading literary periodicals of the 1920s and 1930s, combined with his friendships with...

John Peale Bishop, essayist, fiction writer, critic, and poet, was never in Paris for longer than a year or so, but he spent nearly a quarter of his short life in fairly close proximity to the city, passing in and out of it and through it for about ten...

John Peale Bishop is usually remembered for his associations with the Princeton circle of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson, the expatriate group in Paris that centered around Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway, and the Nashville Agrarians who...

JOHN BISHOP was one of the musical world's most active "backroom" men, an idiosyncratic entrepreneur devoted to the promotion of British music, and who in particular helped rescue the music of Frank Bridge from oblivion. He was a more self-effacing man than most, but...

Baltimore Afro-American 03-15-1997 Bishop John Ricard installed in Florida. Catholic Urban Bishop John H. Ricard was on Thursday enthroned in a high mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Pensacola, as bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in Florida. Since his...

In the following excerpt, Vauthier defends Bishop's use of shifting points of view in his novel Act of Darkness.

In the following essay, Stallman examines the contemporary influences of Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, T. S. Eliot, and others on Bishop's poetry.

In the following essay, originally published in the Spring 1962 issue of The Minnesota Review, Frank places Bishop among the best poets and fiction writers of the “Lost Generation.”