VJ Books presents Kathleen O'Neal Gear!

 

 

Kathleen O'Neal Gear was born in Tulare, California, in 1954.  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.  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, and her M.A., summa cum laude, from California State University. 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.

 

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.

 

Kathleen began writing full-time in 1986 and has over one hundred non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology, history and writing, and has authored nine novels of her own, and co-authored, with her husband W. Michael Gear, twenty-three international bestsellers, which have been translated into twenty-one languages.  She and Michael currently operate an anthropological research company called Wind River Archaeological Consultants.

 

She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains of northern Wyoming.

 

Dark Inheritance

People of the Owl

People of the Weeping Eve

Raising Abel

The Summoning God

The Visitant

 

 

• People of the Wolf(1990)
• People of the Fire(1990)
• People of the Earth(1992)
• People of the River(1992)
• People of the Sea(1993)
• People of the Lakes(1994)
• People of the Lightning (1995)
• People of the Silence (1996)
• People of the Mist (1997)
• People of the Masks (1998)
• People of the Owl (2003)
• People of the Raven (2004)
• People of the Moon (2005)
• People of the Nightland (2007)
• People of the Weeping Eye (2008)
• People of the Thunder (2009)
• People of the Longhouse (2010)

Powers of Light

• An Abyss of Light (1990)
• Treasure of Light (1990)
• Redemption of Light (1991)

Black Falcon

• It Sleeps in Me (2005)
• It Wakes in Me (2006)
• It Dreams in Me (2007)

Anasazi Mysteries (with W Michael Gear)

• The Visitant (1999)
• The Summoning God (2000)
• Bone Walker (2001)

Other Novels

• Sand in the Wind (1990)
• This Widowed Land (1993)
• Thin Moon and Cold Mist (1995)
• Dark Inheritance (2001) (with W Michael Gear)
• Raising Abel (2002) (with W Michael Gear)
• The Betrayal. The Lost Life of Jesus. (2008) (with W Michael Gear)
• Children of the Dawnland (2009) (with W Michael Gear)