Kathleen Gear & W. Michael Gear-- Awards Banquet Speakers
Thursday, 01 May, 7:00 p.m.
Winners of the MPLA Literary Contribution Award for 2008, Kathleen and Michael Gear are authors of dozens of international bestsellers including The First North Americans series, Anasazi Series, Forbidden Borders Trilogy, Genetic Thriller Series, and Spider Trilogy.
Kathleen received her bachelor's from California State University in Bakersfield and a master's from California State in Chico. She studied at the Hebrew University in Israel for a year and did Ph.D. study at UCLA for a year. Her specialty was pre-literate culture and religion. 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.
Michael received his master's from Colorado State University in physical anthropology and has conducted archeological and anthropological fieldwork all over the world. He has published twelve novels and co-authored another seventeen with Kathleen. His work runs the gamut from historical, to prehistorical, to science fiction, to modern thrillers. His Morning River was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and the National Book Award in 1998.
The Gears live on a buffalo ranch in northwestern Wyoming. Read more at their website http://www.gear-gear.com