David Bouchier was born in London just too late to join the Second World War. He worked initially as a journalist and bookseller in London, and a tour guide in Greece and Turkey. Rather late in life he received a PhD from the London School of Economics, and spent two decades teaching at one of Britain’s new universities.

He has pursued a lifetime interest in writing. His commentaries and opinion columns have appeared in dozens of newspapers, and he has contributed fiction and non-fiction to literary and political magazines. His humor column “Out of Order” appeared in the regional Sunday edition of The New York Times for ten years. His Monday essays have been running since 1992 on WSHU Public Radio, and can still be heard every week during Morning Edition. He is also host of the podcast “A Few Well-Chosen Words.”

Until 2015 David hosted a program of classical music and commentary called “Sunday Matinee” on WSHU, learning a great deal about music in the process

His three most recent books are a collection of stories about life in a French village called Not Quite a Stranger, an essay collection Out of Thin Air, and a new memoir, An Unexpected Life, that was published by The Permanent Press Sag Harbor in 2018.