Michael F. Bishop is a writer and historian, and the former director of the National Churchill Library and Center at the George Washington University and executive director of the International Churchill Society. In those roles, he hosted many distinguished leaders in the fields of politics, the military, journalism, and history to discuss the continuing relevance of Churchill’s legacy for live and television audiences. He also organized the successful 34th and 35th International Churchill Conferences in New York and Williamsburg, Virginia. He worked closely with the cast and producers of Darkest Hour, the Oscar-winning film about the perilous first weeks of Churchill’s premiership.

His reviews and articles on Churchill, Lincoln, World War I, and British and Irish politics and history appear in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Review, and elsewhere. He is the ghostwriter of a series of historical works, the most recent of which was a New York Times bestseller.