Lucky Man: A Life in Essays - Softcover

David Bouchier was born in London and started writing essays almost immediately. He worked as a journalist and bookseller, and as 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 sociology at universities in Britain. This experience explains his notable streak of irony.

In 1986 marriage to an American citizen, plus an ardent desire to escape the British climate, brought David to the United States, where he abandoned all hope of earning a proper living, became a freelance writer, and established a distinctively ironic voice on National Public Radio stations in New York and Connecticut. For almost twenty years he was the popular host of a lively program of classical music and commentary called Sunday Matinee on the same stations.

David lives alternately in Stony Brook, Long Island, and in a village near Uzès in France, with his wife Diane, and one very elderly cat. He is the author of eleven previous books, the most recent being a collection of stories about life in a French village—Not Quite a Stranger (2015).