Biography
Born in Tulare, California, Kathleen O'Neal Gear is one of six children. Her parents, Harold Arthur O'Neal and Wanda Lillie O'Neal, left Oklahoma and Arkansas during the Dust Bowl and moved to California. For most of Kathleen's youth, her parents owned and operated a small farm in the central San Joaquin Valley of California, growing primarily cotton and alfalfa. But at the same time, her father authored more than fifty short stories, and her mother worked as a newspaper journalist.
Kathleen 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 the University of California in Los Angeles and did post-graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Her family always spent their summer vacations visiting historical and archaeological sites around the United States. Those trips left indelible impressions. She worked on her first archaeological excavation at the age of ten, and won her first writing contest at the age of thirteen, where she took first place in the American Legion essay contest held at Tipton Elementary School.
In the 1980's, she worked for the United States Department of the Interior as the Wyoming State Historian, and later as the Archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska. She has twice been the recipient of the federal government's "Special Achievement Award" for outstanding management of our nation's cultural heritage. In 2015, she was honored by the United States Congress with a "Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition," and the State of California honored her by passing Joint Member Resolution #117, saying, "The contributions of Kathleen O'Neal Gear to the fields of history, archaeology and writing have been invaluable. She and Michael currently operate an anthropological research company called Wind River Archaeological Consultants.
Kathleen began writing full-time in l986 and has over one hundred non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology, history, writing, and buffalo conservation. She has authored or is in the process of publishing 10 novels under her own name, and co-authored 37 international bestsellers with her husband, W. Michael Gear. She has two books which will soon be released including MAZE MASTER along with MOON HUNT which she co-authored with W. Michael Gear. Their books have been translated into at least 29 languages. She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains Mountains of northern Wyoming.
She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains of northern Wyoming.
Kathleen 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 the University of California in Los Angeles and did post-graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Her family always spent their summer vacations visiting historical and archaeological sites around the United States. Those trips left indelible impressions. She worked on her first archaeological excavation at the age of ten, and won her first writing contest at the age of thirteen, where she took first place in the American Legion essay contest held at Tipton Elementary School.
In the 1980's, she worked for the United States Department of the Interior as the Wyoming State Historian, and later as the Archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska. She has twice been the recipient of the federal government's "Special Achievement Award" for outstanding management of our nation's cultural heritage. In 2015, she was honored by the United States Congress with a "Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition," and the State of California honored her by passing Joint Member Resolution #117, saying, "The contributions of Kathleen O'Neal Gear to the fields of history, archaeology and writing have been invaluable. She and Michael currently operate an anthropological research company called Wind River Archaeological Consultants.
Kathleen began writing full-time in l986 and has over one hundred non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology, history, writing, and buffalo conservation. She has authored or is in the process of publishing 10 novels under her own name, and co-authored 37 international bestsellers with her husband, W. Michael Gear. She has two books which will soon be released including MAZE MASTER along with MOON HUNT which she co-authored with W. Michael Gear. Their books have been translated into at least 29 languages. She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains Mountains of northern Wyoming.
She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains of northern Wyoming.
Books by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Ice Orphan
Ice Ghost
It Sleeps in Me
It Wakes in Me
Lightning Shell
Mourning War
Mourning War
People of the Weeping Eye
Rebel Hearts Anthology
Rebel Hearts Anthology
Cries from the Lost Island
Fracture Event
Fracture Event
People of the Canyons
Moon Hunt
People of the Wolf
Coming of the Storm : Book One of Contact
Moon Hunt: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book Three of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past)
Sun Born: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book Two of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past)
People of the Morning Star
Copper Falcon
Copper Falcon
People of the Morning Star: A People of Cahokia Novel (Book One of the Morning Star Series) (North America's Forgotten Past 21)
Novels of North America's Forg
Novels of North America's Forgotten Past
A searing wind
People of the Black Sun
The summoning God
Fire the sky
Fire the Sky : Book Two of Con
Fire the Sky : Book Two of Contact
Fire the Sky Bk. 2 : Book Two
Fire the Sky Bk. 2 : Book Two of Contact
People of the Longhouse: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
The dawn country
Visitant
Visitant
Children of the Dawnland
Coming of the Storm (Contact - The Battle for America #1)
People of the Longhouse (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Seventeen)
People of the Masks
Betrayal : The Lost Life of Je
Betrayal : The Lost Life of Jesus
People of the Fire: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
People of the River: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
People of the Thunder
People of the Thunder (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Sixteen)
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past)
It Dreams in Me
People of the Nightland (First North Americans)
People of the Weeping Eye (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Fifteen)
The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus
People of the Nightland
People of the Nightland
People of the Nightland (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Fourteen)
People of the Moon (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Thirteen)
This widowed land
People of the moon
People of the raven
The Athena factor
People of the Owl (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Eleven)
People of the Wolf Special Intro Edition (First North Americans)
People of the owl
Bone Walker
Die Weide am Fluß. Roman
Raising Abel
Reliefgeschichte
Reliefgeschichte
Dark inheritance
Das Volk des Nebels
Die Weide am Fluß
The Summoning God (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 2)
Das Volk der Blitze
Das Volk der Stille
The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 1)
People of the Masks (The First North Americans, Book 10)
Das Volk an den Seen
People of the Mist (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Nine)
Das Volk an der Küste
People of the mist
People of the Silence
People of the Silence
The morning river
Das Volk vom Fluß. Die große Vorzeitsaga
People of the Lightning (The First North Americans series, Book 7)
People of the Silence (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Eight)
People of the Silence (The Fir
People of the Silence (The First North American Series)
Thin Moon and Cold Mist
Das Volk der Erde
Das Volk der Erde
People of the Lakes (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Six)
People of the Lakes (The First North Americans series, Book 6)
People of the lightning
People of the Lightning (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Seven)
People of the Sea
Das Volk des Feuers. Roman
People of the Sea (The First North Americans series, Book 5)
Im Zeichen des Wolfes. Roman
People of the River (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Four)
People of the Sea (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Five)
Tribu del Fuego, La
First North Americans
First North Americans
People of the Earth (First Nor
People of the Earth (First North Americans (Audio))
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Three)
People of the Earth (The First North Americans series, Book 3)
People of the Fire
People of the Wolf (The First North Americans series, Book 1)
Relic of empire
Relic of Empire (Forbidden Borders)
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Two)
People of the Fire (The First North Americans series, Book 2)
Redemption of light
Requiem for the Conqueror
An Abyss of Light (Powers of L
An Abyss of Light (Powers of Light)
People of the Wolf (First North Americans)
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, Book One)
Sand in the Wind
Starstrike (Daw Book Collectors)
Big Horn Legacy
People of the Longhouse
People of the Lakes