1st Lieutenant of Infantry, 84th Division, WW!, then became managing editor of Vanity Fair... Scribners 1948 First Edition with "A,


John Peale BISHOP, born May 21, 1892, in Charles Town, West Virginia: poet, novelist, and critic, a member of the lost generation and a close associate of the American expatriate writers in Paris in the 1920s. At Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1917, Bishop formed lifelong friendships with Edmund Wilson, the future critic, and with the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, who depicted Bishop as the highbrow writer Tom D'Invilliers in This Side of Paradise. Bishop published his first volume of verse, Green Fruit, in 1917. During the war, he served with the 84th Division, and served in the Argonne. After the war he was an editor at Vanity Fair magazine in New York City from 1920 to 1922. He married into wealth and traveled throughout Europe. From 1926 to 1933, he lived in France and acquired a deep admiration for French culture. His collection of stories about his native South, Many Thousands Gone (1931), was followed with a volume of poetry, Now with His Love (1933). Act of Darkness, a novel tracing the coming of age of a young man, and Minute Particulars, a collection of verse, both appeared in 1935. He became chief poetry reviewer for The Nation magazine in 1940. That year he published perhaps his finest poem, "The Hours," an elegy on the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald. His Collected Poems (1948) was edited by the poet Allen Tate and his Collected Essays (1948) by Edmund Wilso