DAVID BOUCHIER

David Bouchier is an awardwinning weekly essayist for National Public Radio and host of Sunday Matinee, an NPR program of classical music and commentary. His syndicated commentaries and opinion columns have appeared in dozens of newspapers. His books include The Cats and the Water Bottle, The Accidental Immigrant, Letters from France, The Song of Suburbia, Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing and A Few Well Chosen Words. He is one of the distinctively ironic voices of American public radio. David lives in Stony Brook, Long Island and in a village near Uzès, France, with his wife, a professor at Stony Brook University. WHA143