{{short description|American novelist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = William Henry Bishop | image = William Henry Bishop (1847-1928).png | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1847|1|7}} | birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1928|9|26|1847|1|7}} | death_place = Brooklyn, Connecticut, US | burial_place = Old Cemetery, East Haven | occupation = Novelist | awards = | spouse = {{Marriage|Mary Dearborn Jackson|July 28, 1886}} | children = 2 | education = Yale University | signature = | party = }} '''William Henry Bishop''' (January 7, 1847 – September 26, 1928) was an American novelist.<ref name=NIE>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Bishop, William Henry|vb=x|short=x}}</ref>
==Biography== William Henry Bishop was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 7, 1847.<ref name=marquis1926>[https://archive.org/details/whoswho141926/page/280/mode/2up Bishop, William Henry] in ''Who's Who in America'' (1926 edition); p. 280</ref><ref name=Bartleby>{{Cite web|title=William Henry Bishop (1847–1928)|url=https://www.bartleby.com/library/bios/688.html|publisher=Bartleby.com|access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref> He graduated from Yale University in 1867,<ref name=NIE/> where he later went on to teach.<ref name=Marquis>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/96/mode/2up Bishop, William Henry] in ''Who's Who in America'' (1901-02 edition); p. 96; via archive.org</ref>
He married Mary Dearborn Jackson on July 28, 1886, and they had two children.<ref name=Universities>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesandt02cham/page/386/mode/1up |title=Universities and Their Sons |volume=II |editor-first=Joshua L. |editor-last=Chamberlain |publisher=R. Herndon Company |place=Boston |pages=386–387 |date=1899 |access-date=2025-05-07 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature in 1918.
He died in Brooklyn, Connecticut, on September 26, 1928, and was buried at the Old Cemetery in East Haven.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-obituary-for-william-he/171921144/ |title=W. H. Bishop, Yale '67, To Be Buried in Old Cemetery With Ancestors |newspaper=Hartford Courant |place=New Haven |agency=AP |page=9 |date=1928-09-27 |publication-date=1928-09-28 |access-date=2025-05-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Works== 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.<ref name=NIE />
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==External links== * [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0083 William Henry Bishop papers (MS 83)]. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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