Author and radio essayist
Robert Finch is an American nature writer and essayist. He was born in West Virginia and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He has lived on Cape Cod since 1971 and has written several books about the natural and human histories of Cape Cod. His first book, "Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod" (1981), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for non fiction in 1982. His radio essays with the public radio station WCAI led to his collection "A Cape Cod Notebook."