Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California. He attended San Diego State University (1968–1973), where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the university, he was a teaching assistant to Elizabeth Chater in her course on science fiction writing, and in later years her friend
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Greg Bear is the father of the beautiful young writers Chloe and Alexandra and was married to their mother Astrid Anderson Bear who has written for SAN DIEGO NOIR.
Gregory Dale Bear was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict, parallel universes, consciousness, cultural practices, and accelerated evolution. His most recent work was the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land.
Bear died on November 19, 2022, at the age of 71, from multiple strokes, caused by clots that had been hiding in a false lumen of the anterior artery to the brain since surgery in 2014.