Harvey Eugene Oyer III

Harvey Eugene Oyer III (born April 5, 1968) is an American author and attorney from West Palm Beach, Florida. Best known for his award-winning children’s book series "The Adventures of Charlie Pierce", he was named Florida Distinguished Author in 2013

Oyer was born in Boynton Beach, Florida, the son of Harvey Eugene Oyer Jr., a former Boynton Beach Mayor, and Linda Eve Oyer. A fifth generation Floridian, Oyer is the great-great grandson of pioneer settler Captain Hannibal Dillingham Pierce, who was one of the first non-Native Americans to settle in Southeast Florida, arriving in 1872. Pierce was one of several early settlers who planted thousands of coconuts salvaged from a Spanish shipwreck in 1878. The resulting acres of coconut palms eventually provided Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, and Palm Beach County with their respective names. Oyer is the great grandson of Lillie Pierce Voss, the first white child born between Jupiter and Miami, an area that now has approximately 6 million people. She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 2013. He is the great grand nephew of Charles William Pierce, for whom Oyer’s children’s book series is named. Pierce was elected a Great Floridian in 2009.

Oyer attended the University of Florida where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with high honors and with election to Phi Beta Kappa. He won a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and studied graduate economics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Oyer graduated with a Master of Philosophy in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in England and with a Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Florida College of Law. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1998. He served in the United States Marine Corps, attaining the rank of Captain.

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