pained astonishment" when Bishop finds certain works funny. But despite certain regrets, he concluded that "This is a good book, a fat and rich and crisp and juicy book". Youthful experiments included a play produced in 1914 that, Morris later wrote, "was the worst play I have ever seen on the stage, and was possibly the worst play ever seen on any stage". Bishop's autobiography was edited by his daughter, Alison Jolly, as I Think I Have Been Here Before; it "includes poems and the text of many letters written by Bishop, as well as a few illustrations and photographs of Bishop and family". , it remains unpublished. Other responsibilities Bishop headed the Usage Panel of the first edition (1969) of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. According to one estimate, among the 105 people making up the Usage Panel, Bishop was, together with Calvert Watkins, Mario Pei, and perhaps Morton W. Bloomfield, one of just three or four people "who may be described as linguistic specialists". The panel was elderly (average age 64), and predominantly white, male and middle class. One unimpressed scholar wrote that he "would label Bishop's attitude toward the language aristocratic; 'the instinctive verbalizers of the unlettered mass' must be painful for him both linguistically and socially." Bishop was a Cornell University faculty trustee from 1957 to 1961. Toward the end of his life, Bishop worked as the curator of the Olin Library's Fiske Petrarch Collection. Reviewing the catalogue of this collection, the Hispanist Joseph G. Fucilla was disappointed that the library had only half-heartedly been acquiring newer publications with which to keep up to date the collection that Willard Fiske had started so grandly. Personal life In 1927, Bishop married the artist Alison Mason Kingsbury (1898–1988), who went on to illustrate a number of his books. (They had met at Cornell, where she was working as one of a pair of assistants to the muralist Ezra Winter.) Their daughter, Alison Bishop Jolly (1937–2014), was an expert on lemurs. The family lived at 903 Wyckoff Road, Cayuga Heights. During the 1940s, Vladimir Nabokov's minor renown in the US was largely based on his short stories in Atlantic Monthly. Bishop was a great admirer of these, and on learning in 1947 that Nabokov was teaching at Wellesley College, invited him to apply for the recently vacated Cornell professorship of Russian literature, for which post Bishop