About the Author

Chip Bishop is an accomplished writer of popular American history, specializing on Theodore Roosevelt and his family.

A Tortured Soul, his long-anticipated biography of Elliott Roosevelt, T.R.’s brother and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s father, will be published by ForeEdge in 2017.

Chip’s 2014 book, Quentin & Flora – A Roosevelt and a Vanderbilt in Love during the Great War – has won wide acclaim from reviewers and readers alike.

His debut book, The Lion and the Journalist – The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop, was a New York Times e-book bestseller in March 2014.

Chip grew up in Woonsocket, R.I. and was graduated from Boston University. His lifetime of achievements includes time as a campaign and administration aide to President Jimmy Carter, Capitol Hill lobbyist, entrepreneur, local elected official, and 1960s-era disc-jockey.

Chip is a member of the board of directors of the Biographers International Organization, on the Advisory Board of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the executive committee of its New England chapter.

He recently concluded a term as vice chair of the board of trustees of the Mashpee Massachusetts Public Library. He loves doo-wop music, old German stamps and the Red Sox when they are champions.

Chip lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Jane Nichols Bishop, and Benjamin and Sabrina, their two black, rescue cats.

He is the great-grandnephew of Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt’s authorized biographer, who was profiled in his first book.