The writer and composer Charles Shere was music director at KPFA-fm, announcer and producer at KQED-tv, and art and music critic at the Oakland Tribune. He has been associated with the restaurant Chez Panisse since its founding, and has published books on the composer Robert Erickson, on Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp, and a number of books of travel essays. A fifth-generation Californian, he considers himself a modernist and a regionalist, with a strong interest in Place.
