Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954) is an American writer. Gear is a former state historian and archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government's Special Advancement Award for "outstanding management" of our nation's cultural heritage. She is perhaps best known for her First North Americans series, co-authored with husband W. Michael Gear.[1]
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O'Neal Gear was born in Tulare, California in 1954. She received her B.A., cum laude, from California State University in Bakersfield, and her M.A., summa cum laude, from California State University in Chico. She conducted Ph.D. studies at UCLA and did post-graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
She resides in Thermopolis, Wyoming and is married to fellow writer and co-author W. Michael Gear.
People Books - First North Americans (with W. Michael Gear)
Powers of Light
Black Falcon
Anasazi Mysteries (with W Michael Gear)
Other Novels