Oliver B. Williams' career resembles a web rather than a path. His interests have spanned the spectrum of professional extremes: TV repairman, technical documentation writer, microelectronics engineer and manager, inventor, statistician, flight instructor, Lear Jet charter pilot, market research analyst, Internet entrepreneur, community mental health counselor, college professor, clinical and research psychologist, and fiction writer. A bachelor's degree in physics, a masters in counseling psychology and statistics, and a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Clinical Psychology, he claims one constant thread in what would appear as a morass of career dissonance: writing. Technical, research, essays, non-fiction, fiction—he has never abandoned his love of writing—explaining, entertaining, motivating.

"Life contains too many challenges, so many things to learn and experience. And it's too short. How one could settle on a job for thirty years, then retire?—I don't know. I enjoy everything I do; I've enjoyed everything I've done. I've finished what I've started, and I have no regrets."

"First and foremost in my life, I'm a father and a husband. I'm happily married for over seventeen years, and I have four wonderful and intelligent children. I grew up in three African-American urban ghettos: Los Angeles, Detroit, and Omaha. I attribute my multiple interests, careers, education, and social/race experiences with providing me a unique perspective and coping style which helped me survive in a dichotomous and sometimes irrational world. I've sought to pass on my experiences to my children, and hopefully entertain—maybe enlighten—a few readers with the same.”