Margie Bucheit, a journalist and history enthusiast, has penned her first work of fiction We Chose Resistance, a novel, and set it in World War II France.

Bucheit lives half of each year in a region of the Loire Valley known as La Sologne, where once a defiant Resistance movement stood strong against the Nazi occupation of World War II.

For the writing of her book, she spent five years digging into the region’s rich history and conducted personal interviews with the elderly relatives of friends who were children during the occupation.

She has worked as a journalist for several New England newspapers and also served at educational institutions and non-profits. Several of her published articles were recognized with awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

Her curiosity about the happenings in La Sologne during World War Two led to research that uncovered a wealth of large and small Resistance actions that occurred throughout the Loire Valley region in the months before and after D-Day.

In addition to being a journalist for four local newspapers in Rhode Island, she wrote and edited articles for a monthly national property/casualty insurance trade magazine and worked as an assistant editor for the former Seabury Press in NYC. Bucheit also developed science-related educational programs for adults as well as educators in the K-12 Rhode Island teaching community, through the University of Rhode Island. The science-based Project Discovery Program, developed by her and two other colleagues, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article.

Bucheit earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from Fairfield University, an MS in Biology from Antioch University, and a BA in American and English Literature form Union College.

Raised in Youngstown, Ohio, she now splits her time between France and New England, with her husband.