Adam Nicholson,
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, ISBN-13 : 978-0060838737
Bestsellers are cheap and if your public library doesn't have this, you can buy a readable used copy online for $5 or $6 shipped.
Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, was what we call Editor-in-Chief; Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Winchester, and Miles Smith, Bishop of Gloucester, were translators and what we call Managing Editors. Bilson wrote the epistle dedicatory from the Translators to King James, which is included in many modern editions. It is worth reading if you are studying the literature and history of the period. Bilson was the most skilled of all the translators in dealing with King James. Miles Smith wrote "The Translators to the Reader," which is included in few modern editions. You should read it if you read Nicolson's book, because its subject is the same: who the translators were, their method, and why they undertook yet another revision of William Tyndale's English Bible. If Smith's epistle is not in your Bible, you can find it many places on the internet: run a Google search on "king james bible translators to the reader"
In his time, Bishop Smith was best known for walking out on a sermon which bored him and going to a pub for a few beers.
Not all the translators were bishops and one was not ordained. Sir Henry Savile was an intellectual retired pirate and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
