William Henry Bishop (1847-1928) was a United States novelist. Biography He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1867. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature in 1918. 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. References External links William Henry Bishop papers (MS 83). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1847 births 1928 deaths 19th-century American novelists Yale University alumni Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters