Michael Bishop
1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-26
Michael Lawson Bishop (1945-2023) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, short stories, essays and poems. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and much travelled in childhood, he took a BA and an MA in English at the University of Georgia, taught English there from 1972 to 1974 and then became a full-time writer, living for most of his adult life in Pine Mountain, Georgia; from 1996 he was writer-in-residence at nearby LaGrange College. He won Nebula Awards for the novelette The Quickening and the novel No Enemy But Time (1982), four Locus Awards, including one for the Southern Gothic baseball novel Brittle Innings (1994), and the Mythopoeic Award for the contemporary fantasy Unicorn Mountain (1988). He was named to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2018.
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- Core Canon books: 1
- Current rank: #601 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.53
- Award recognitions: 1 won
Books
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- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
- Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)
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Unicorn Mountain (1988) · Unicorn Mountain Core Canon