Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
Two, 1986-1990, pages 105-106. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1999.
In 1952, was living in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Had two daughters with first wife Elinor Margaret Dunning - Virginia Lee (born about 1937) and Gayle Peggy (born about 1943).
Once worked as secretary to Mark Hellinger, a Broadway newspaper columnist who also became a film writer and producer.
Once hosted a now-forgotten TV series called "Battlefield", a 1960's precursor to the similarly-themed 1995 series. For some reason, little documentation about this 1960's version can be found.
Copy boy, New York Daily News, 1929.
Founding editor, Gold Medal Books, 1949.
Columnist for King Features Syndicate, column "Jim Bishop: Reporter," 1956-83.
Associate editor, Colliers magazine, 1943.
Inspired to become a writer while sitting at the kitchen table as a boy watching his father, a Jersey City, New Jersey police lieutenant, fill out his police reports.
Reporter, New York Daily Mirror, 1930.
Founding editor, Catholic Digest Book Club, 1954-55.
Executive editor, Liberty magazine, 1945-47.
War editor, Colliers magazine, 1943-45.
Rewrite man and feature writer, New York Daily Mirror, 1934-43.