Bill Miller

Born and raised in Bolivar, Tennessee, Bill Miller earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at Tennessee State University in Nashville, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (biological sciences and chemistry). He worked for Lilly Research Laboratories and Dow Chemical as a research scientist.

He retired in 2000, and bought a cattle ranch near Princeton, Kansas. After he had been kicked and dragged around enough, he kissed the Kansas prairie goodbye and moved back to Tennessee in 2011. Currently, he and his wife Mary live in Jackson, Tennessee which is about thirty miles from Bolivar, the town where they grew up.


As a writer, one of his biggest faults is not knowing when to say when. He can’t recognize his best effort, and he literally doesn’t know when to stop. However, his wife keeps a close eye on him, and she knows when to say, "that's enough dear; it's time to shut it down."