author
Austin Bishop
Best known for writing juvenile historical fiction, this early twentieth-century author is remembered today for adventure stories set against real moments in American history. His surviving reputation seems to rest mainly on Tom of the Raiders, a fast-moving Civil War tale that has remained available through public-domain archives.
1 Audiobook
Tom of the Raiders
by Austin Bishop
About the author
Very little biographical information about Austin Bishop is easy to confirm from major public sources. What can be verified is that he wrote juvenile historical fiction, and that his best-known surviving work is Tom of the Raiders.
That novel is still listed by Project Gutenberg, the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania, and LibriVox, where the author is described as a writer of juvenile historical fiction. The book follows a Civil War setting and has helped keep Bishop's name in circulation long after its original publication.
Because reliable biographical details appear to be scarce, Austin Bishop remains one of those authors known more through the endurance of a single adventure story than through a well-documented personal history.