- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 105-106. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- In 1952, was living in Teaneck, New Jersey.
- Had two daughters with first wife Elinor Margaret Dunning - Virginia Lee (born about 1937) and Gayle Peggy (born about 1943).
- Once worked as secretary to Mark Hellinger, a Broadway newspaper columnist who also became a film writer and producer.
- Once hosted a now-forgotten TV series called "Battlefield", a 1960's precursor to the similarly-themed 1995 series. For some reason, little documentation about this 1960's version can be found.
- Copy boy, New York Daily News, 1929.
- Founding editor, Gold Medal Books, 1949.
- Columnist for King Features Syndicate, column "Jim Bishop: Reporter," 1956-83.
- Associate editor, Colliers magazine, 1943.
- Inspired to become a writer while sitting at the kitchen table as a boy watching his father, a Jersey City, New Jersey police lieutenant, fill out his police reports.
- Reporter, New York Daily Mirror, 1930.
- Founding editor, Catholic Digest Book Club, 1954-55.
- Executive editor, Liberty magazine, 1945-47.
- War editor, Colliers magazine, 1943-45.
- Rewrite man and feature writer, New York Daily Mirror, 1934-43.
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