James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987)[1][2] was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln Was Shot.
In 1923, he studied typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping, and in 1929 began work as a copy boy at the New York Daily News.
[3] In 1930, Bishop got a job as a cub reporter at New York Daily Mirror, where he worked until 1943, when he joined Collier's magazine.
[3] From 1946 to 1948, Bishop was executive editor of Liberty magazine, he then was director of the literary department at the Music Corporation of America until 1951.
Writing in Crisis Magazine sixty years after the publication of The Day Christ Died, Michael De Sapio offers these words of admiration for the author:Jim Bishop was at heart a Catholic who believed in the veracity of the Gospels.