David Bouchier is the popular weekly essayist for National Public Radio Stations WSHU & WSUF in New York and Connecticut. He was born in London and has worked as a journalist, college teacher, and broadcaster on both sides of the Atlantic. In the pre-Covid era he lived alternately on Long Island and in a village in the south of France. As well as essay collections and travel books he has published two memoirs, An Unexpected Life (2018) and A Journal of the Eightieth Year (2020).