Kathleen O’Neal Gear

Kathleen O’Neal Gear is one of the highly noteworthy authors from America, who is famous for writing historical fiction and fantasy novels. Apart from writing novels, she has also been a successful archaeologist and historian. Author Gear is best known for writing the First North Americans novel series, which she wrote in collaboration with her novelist husband named W. Michael Gear. The husband and wife pair have co-authored a number of novels together in their respective writing careers. Author Gear started her career in the year 1990 with the release of a few of her books. She was born in the year 1954 in Tulare, California, The United States. Gear studied at the University of California State in Bakersfield and obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree with a cum laude. Later, she earned her Masters degree from the same university in Chicago, summa cum laude. Author Gear’s Ph.D studies were conducted at the UCLA, while she completed her studies in post graduation from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, Israel. As of today, she lives in Thermopolis, Wyoming along with her beloved husband, Michael Gear. As a former archaeologist and state historian, Gear has worked in a number of places such as Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming, for the Interior Department of the US government. On two occasions, she has been awarded with the Special Advancement Prize from the federal government for her outstanding achievement in managing the cultural heritage of the US nation. Author Gear has said that she first began her professional career in the basement of the Cultural History Museum in Los Angeles. There, she was mainly involved in cataloguing the carvings of a 3 hundred year old Guatemalan saint. After a little into this job, Gear decided to call it quits, even though she found it very fascinating, and shifted to Wyoming to work in an even more fascinating job in the archaeological department of the U.S. Government.