A graduate of the University of Montana School of Law, P.R. Oliver is an attorney in Billings, Montana. Oliver, an army brat born in California and raised in Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University and received degrees from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. 
Before attending law school, Oliver spent twelve years in the computer business in various capacities and lived or worked in the places he writes about in Citizens Ununited: A Novel. Married with three grown children, he lives in a log home outside of Billings on twenty acres where he and his wife raise angus cattle, horses, and chickens. Olivre claims raising animals and peforming farm chores are not as easy as they sound, and he has developed a deep respect for farmers and ranchers.