William Allen Bishop (born 1953) is an American author, journalist and social commentator. He co-wrote a book with retired college professor Robert Cushing entitled ''
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart''. His ideas have influenced the speeches of former U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...
.
Bishop was born in
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...
.
He is the co-founder and contributing editor of the ''Daily Yonder'', a blog about
rural
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issues in the United States. Bishop has worked for several newspapers: the ''
Austin American-Statesman
The ''Austin American-Statesman'' is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is owned by Hearst Communications. The distribution of the following ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', '' ...
'', ''
Lexington Herald-Leader
The ''Lexington Herald-Leader'' is a newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and based in Lexington, Kentucky. According to the ''1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook'', the paid circulation of the ''Herald-Leader'' is the second larg ...
'', and ''
The Mountain Eagle
''The Mountain Eagle'' is a 1926 silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director, following '' The Pleasure Garden''. The film, a romantic drama set in Kentucky, is about a widower ( Bernhard Goetzke) who jealously competes with his cri ...
''. He has a degree from
Duke University
Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...
. His wife, Julie Ardery, is also a co-founder and contributing editor of the ''Daily Yonder''. The couple previously owned a newspaper: the ''
Bastrop County Times''. They currently live in
La Grange, Texas
La Grange ( ) is a city and the county seat of Fayette County, Texas, United States, near the Colorado River. La Grange is in the center of the Texas-German belt. The population was 4,391 at the 2010 census, and in 2018 the estimated population ...
.
"Authors"
thebigsort.com. Retrieved June 2013
Awards
* 1996 Gerald Loeb Award
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for Commentary
References
External links
''The Big Sort''
''Daily Yonder''
1953 births
Living people
American male journalists
Austin American-Statesman people
Duke University alumni
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials
People from La Grange, Texas
Writers from Austin, Texas
Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
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