Allan Richard Pred (1936–2007) was an internationally known American geographer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley[1] He wrote more than 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters.
[2] He enrolled at Antioch College in 1953, at age 16, and graduated first in his class in 1957.
He served as the chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Geography between 1979 and 1988, and was made a Professor of the Graduate School in 2005, the most senior Berkeley position.
He met his wife Hjördis, in San Francisco in 1962; they moved between Berkeley and Sweden on a yearly basis, raising bi-lingual children, Michele Pred and Joseph Pred.
His books are required reading in multiple college courses.