Kathleen O'Neal Gear (b.1954), novelist

Kathleen O'Neal Gear (b.1954) is an American novelist. Born in Tulare, CA. Studied at California State University in Bakersfield, and California State University in Chico. She got her PhD at UCLA and did post-graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Historian and archeologist, is the author (and co-author, with her husband W. Michael Gear) of numerous bestselling novels.