Bishop, who is best known for her role as the Gilmore family matriarch, wrote her new memoir “The Third Gilmore Girl” after encouragement from the show’s creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who also wrote the foreword.

Long before she ever took on the now-iconic role of Emily Gilmore in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s beloved comedy-drama “Gilmore Girls,” Kelly Bishop had a stunning résumé. From the mid-1960s and on, Bishop appeared in numerous Broadway shows,

Kelly Bishop opens up about her relationships with Edward Herrmann, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel and more in her ‘The Third Gilmore Girl’ book