Commercial bibliographic metadata attributes to John Moody the novel The Black Bishop, linked to ISBN 1588985334 / 9781588985330 and commonly listed as a 2001 paperback. Listings typically describe the story as following two Southern friends, one white and one Black, across slavery and the Civil War period and beyond. Metadata reliably supports a limited set of points: the work exists, it circulated commercially, it is attributed to him in catalog listings, and it is described with consistent themes across sources. This memorial does not attempt to infer more than those sources can support. Even so, the fact of authorship matters. It indicates a post-service life that included sustained reflection and the attempt to shape history into narrative.
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