David Bouchier

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.

A faculty exchange program in 1979 brought him to Stony Brook where he met and later married Diane Barthel, a professor at the university here. In 1986 David moved permanently to the United States and taught for a number of years at Stony Brook University and at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead.

Apart from teaching 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.”