Our hearts go out to Michael Bishop (author of Brittle Innings and other fine novels) for the tragic loss of his son Jamie in the shootings at Virginia Tech.
Jamie Bishop, who taught German at Virginia Tech, had earned his BA from Georgia University and had been a Fulbright Scholar in Kiel, Germany (studying Early and Ancient History and Archeology). He was also a photographer, digital artist, and a book illustrator for Golden Gryphon Press, Prime Books, and other publishers. The photograph below is from his beautiful "Red, Gold, Blue" series. You can see more of his work on his Memory39 website. There's an article about Jamie in the Roanoke Times ("Jamie Bishop: He Talked About 'Changing the World With Art' "), and Paul Di Fillipo has posted an excerpt from Michael Bishop's essay "A Reverie for Mister Ray," about reading Ray Bradbury to Jamie as a child.
There are simply no words with which to properly express the deep sadness of this senseless death. Our prayers are with Michael & Jeri Bishop and their family, and with Jamie's wife Stephanie.
It is such a senseless tragedy and my heart and prayers go out to all the friends and family of the victims of this shooting. It this time where media, especially the internet, has made the world such a small place, such a 'community', tragedies like this touch us all so much more personally. I'm so sorry for our loss.
Posted by: Carl V. | April 18, 2007 at 11:48 AM
When bright lights such as Jamie are lost, we are all diminished. Sending my prayers to all of the families and friends of victims of this terrible tragedy...
Posted by: chandracerchionepeltier | April 18, 2007 at 03:55 PM
that is so powerful. imagine a site with the webpages of each of them
Posted by: lotusgreen | April 18, 2007 at 03:58 PM
I am very sorry! this is so sad....
Posted by: Catalina | April 19, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Just wanted to mentioned that Jamie and most of the other victims are on cover of the April 30th 2007 issue of TIME Magazine, entitled "Special Report". While I was glad to see that they made the cover, I was nonetheless saddened that so much attention, both in written coverage as well as photographic imagery, was given to the killer. It only confirms to attention seekers that this is a route one can go to get one's story heard.
Posted by: chandracerchionepeltier | April 22, 2007 at 09:04 PM
Love and light to you all x
Posted by: stephne | April 24, 2007 at 01:06 AM