Robert Finch (born 1943) is an American author, essayist, and radio commentator.
His first book, Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod (1981), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1982.
Robert Finch has served as publications director for the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and as a staff member of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College.
For ten years, Finch also taught creative nonfiction in the Spalding University Master of Fine Arts program.
[1] Annie Dillard said: "Robert Finch is one of our finest observers...I admire his essays very much for their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality."