Leonard Bishop was an American novelist, writing teacher, and newspaper columnist.
11 Facts About Leonard Bishop
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Leonard Bishop wrote for over five decades, only stopping two weeks before his death in 2002.
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Leonard Bishop has worked alongside other famous authors such as Mario Puzo, William Styron, Joseph Heller, Richard Wright, and Harlan Ellison.
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Leonard Bishop was born October 17,1922, in New York City, where he grew up.
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Leonard Bishop was raised in extreme poverty, spending a year with his older brother, Bernard, in a Catholic orphanage because his mother, Esther, couldn't support them.
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Leonard Bishop had a difficulty for learning and soon dropped out.
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Leonard Bishop began to steal to help support his family but was sent to a camp in Maine to learn a trade.
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Leonard Bishop became inspired and wanted to achieve more out of life, so he went home and enrolled in The New School of Social Research.
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Leonard Bishop's books Make My Bed in Hell and The Desire Years were both recognized by the Gold Medal Books.
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Leonard Bishop taught at multiple places but ended at University of California, Berkeley.
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Leonard Bishop soon caught pneumonia and on December 19,2002, at the Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas he died at the age of 80.