Bill Bishop

Bill Bishop, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, blogged on Texas politics for the Austin American-Statesman where his posts grew into a series of articles, written in collaboration with sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing, called "'The Great Divide."' The series received a great deal of national attention and was the genesis for "'The Big Sort"'. Bishop has worked at the "'Mountain Eagle"', a weekly paper in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and has taught at Duke University. He and his wife owned and operated the "'Bastrop Country Times"', a weekly newspaper in Smithville, Texas.