W. Michael Gear
W. Michael Gear is an American author of historical fiction in addition to being an archaeologist. After getting sick of reading historical fiction with historical inaccuracies, Michael immediately wrote a 550 page novel – his first attempt at a novel – that may not have read well, but was at least accurate historically. Michael frequently co-authors his novels with his wife Kathleen O’Neal Gear , which includes their best known work, the First North Americans series.