Robert Choquette has received many literary awards for his poetry, yet he is equally recognized for his novels, his radio and television dramas, and his diplomatic career as the first Canadian consul-general in Bordeaux and Canadian ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, on 22 April 1905 to Canadian parents, Joseph-Alfred and Ariane Payette Choquette, Robert Guy Choquette remained in the United States until his ninth year. He has made light of this double nationality and dual personality by claiming that at border crossings he would show his certificate of baptism to American customs officials while to Canadians he offered the next episodes of his radio-romans, or radio-novels. The family moved to Lewiston, Maine, where Choquette's father, a physician, set up his practice, while summer vacations were spent at the coast, a setting which influenced the poem Suite marine (1953). With the death of Mme Choquette in...