Since 1976, Pierce Kelley has been a trial attorney in both the criminal and civil arenas. He has tried well over a hundred cases before juries and has successfully appealed cases to the Supreme Court of the State of Florida and the State of West Virginia. He currently works with the Three Rivers Legal Services Program, which provides legal services to the poor and the elderly in a seventeen county area in North Florida.
Mr. Kelley has taught at various colleges and universities for over twenty years as an adjunct professor. During most of the last ten years, he taught civil litigation to paralegal students at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg, Florida. "A Very Fine Line" is his second novel to be published.