David Ollier Weber

David Ollier Weber has been a seaman aboard a Norwegian freighter, a U.S. Navy destroyer officer in the Far East, a reporter for a San Francisco Bay Area daily newspaper, the PR representative of the Port of Oakland and the editor of Pacific Gas & Electric Company's monthly employee magazine, PG&E Life. A free-lance writer specializing in health care delivery issues for more than 30 years, he was awarded the annual $10,000 prize for excellence in health care trade reporting in 2002 by the National Institute for Health Care Management. More than 120 of his articles are cited in PubMed, the online database of the National Institute of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Weber's fiction includes the novels Vanity, Baja, Catch/Release, My Life in Sports and CHUN, and the short story collections Family Fun and Bad Trips. His non-fiction books include Oakland: Hub of the West and Accustomed to Hope: The Episcopal Church on the Mendocino Coast. A father of four, he lives with his wife -- Episcopal priest/writer Christine Leigh-Taylor -- standard poodle Shadow, barn cat Georgie, five chickens and a menagerie of wildlife on an olive farm five minutes from Sutter's Mill in California's Motherlode.