Bill Bishop worked as a reporter at The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and at the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, and as columnist at the Lexington Herald Leader. He and his wife, Julie Ardery, published the Bastrop County Times, a weekly newspaper in Smithville, Texas, and they were founding editors of The Daily Yonder, which covers rural America. He is the author of “The Big Sort: Why The Clustering Of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart” (2008). They now live in their hometown of Louisville.
