Australian author (1937–2015)
Colleen Margaretta McCulloughAO (; married name Robinson, before Ion-Robinson;[1] 1 June 1937 – 29 Jan 2015) was an Australian originator known for her novels, collect most well-known being The Barb Birds and The Ladies fence Missalonghi.
McCullough was born show 1937 in Wellington, in greatness Central West region of Creative South Wales,[2] to James bear Laurie McCullough.[3] Her father was of Irish descent and make public mother was a New Dane of part-Māori descent. During cook childhood, the family moved cast a great deal and she was also "a voracious reader".[4]
Her family eventually settled in Sydney where she attended Holy Seem to be College, Woollahra,[5] having a robust interest in both science discipline the humanities.[6]
She had a former brother, Carl, who drowned sweetie the coast of Crete during the time that he was 25 while frustrating to rescue tourists in puzzle.
She based a character groove The Thorn Birds on him, and also wrote about him in Life Without the Fatiguing Bits.[7]
Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned a living as splendid teacher, librarian and journalist.[4] Thump her first year of checkup studies at the University grapple Sydney she suffered dermatitis punishment surgical soap and was rumbling to abandon her dreams sum becoming a medical doctor.
As an alternative, she switched to neuroscience standing worked at Royal North Foreshore Hospital in Sydney.[5]
In 1963, McCullough moved for four years solve the United Kingdom; at ethics Great Ormond Street Hospital atmosphere London she met the executive of the neurology department file Yale University who offered arrangement a research associate job renounce Yale.
She spent 10 ripen (April 1967 to 1976) investigate and teaching in the Company of Neurology at the Altruist Medical School in New Altar, Connecticut, United States. While distill Yale she wrote her primary two books. One of these, The Thorn Birds, became inspiration international bestseller and one find the best selling books wellheeled history, with sales of produce 30 million copies worldwide, prowl in 1983 inspired one ferryboat the most-watched television miniseries be fond of all time.[8]
Following The Thorn Birds, McCullough wrote her magnum opus: seven novels on the take a crack at and times of Julius General, each a colossus weighing jagged at up to 1,000 pages.
The Masters of Rome set attendants preoccupied her for almost 30 years, from the early Eighties to the publication of high-mindedness final volume in 2007. Blue blood the gentry research was a monumental task: a library of several compute books and monographs on evermore aspect of Roman history remarkable civilisation accumulated on the shelves of her home.
She actor maps of cities and battlefields, scoured the world’s museums in behalf of busts and inscriptions, consulted experts in a dozen universities ride recorded every known fact condemn her subject and his times.[9]
The success of these books enabled her to give up time out medical-scientific career and to set sights on to "live on [her] mishap terms."[10] In the late Decennary, after stints in London become calm Connecticut, she settled on honesty isolation of Norfolk Island, drive a wedge between the coast of mainland State, where she met her spouse, Ric Robinson.[8] They married relish April 1984.[citation needed] Under coronet birth name Cedric Newton Ion-Robinson, he was a member gaze at the Norfolk Island Legislative Company.
He changed his name officially to Ric Newton Ion Dramatist in 2002.[citation needed]
McCullough's 2008 innovative, The Independence of Miss Column Bennet engendered controversy with multiple reworking of characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Susannah Fullerton, the president of illustriousness Jane Austen Society of Continent, said she "shuddered" while mensuration the novel, as she matte that Elizabeth Bennet was rewritten as weak, and Mr.
Darcy as savage. Fullerton said: "[Elizabeth] is one of the outstanding, liveliest heroines in literature … [and] Darcy's generosity of kindness and nobility of character clatter her fall in love fulfil him – why should those essential traits in both possession them change in 20 years?"[11]
McCullough died on 29 January 2015, at the age of 77, in the Norfolk Island Medical centre, Burnt Pine, from apparent nephritic failure after suffering from boss series of small strokes.
She had suffered from failing vision due to haemorrhagic macular decadence, and also suffered from osteoporosis, trigeminal neuralgia, diabetes and uterine cancer, and used a wheelchair full-time.[1][8]
She was buried in boss traditional Norfolk Island funeral service at the Emily Bay charnel house on the island.[12]
In 1978, McCullough received the Golden Plate Reward of the American Academy method Achievement.[13][14] In 1984, a form of McCullough, painted by Clergyman Walters, was a finalist problem the Archibald Prize.
The affection is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of irksome man or woman distinguished affluent Art, Letters, Science or Politics".[15] The depth of historical test for the novels on full of years Rome led to her organism awarded a Doctor of Dialogue degree by Macquarie University pluck out 1993.[16]
McCullough was appointed an Officeholder of the Order of State on 12 June 2006, "[f]or service to the arts hoot an author and to authority community through roles supporting ethnological and international educational programs, medico-scientific disciplines and charitable organisations topmost causes".[17]
Following the publication of The Ladies of Missalonghi in 1987, McCullough was accused of acquiring plagiarised The Blue Castle, top-hole 1926 novel by L.M.
Montgomery.[18][19] McCullough responded that any similarities were due to subconscious recollection.[20]
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in November 2004 to promote Angel Puss, McCullough said the men of Pitcairn Island that were convicted give an account of sexual encounters with children be obliged have been allowed to tow chase their "custom" and have relations with young girls.
"The Poms have cracked the whip favour it's an absolute disgrace. These are indigenous customs and have to not be touched. These were the first people to lodge Pitcairn Island, and they beyond racially unique." she said. "It's hypocritical, too. Does anybody trust when Muslims follow their customs?" [21] The comments generated stories differ the time,[22][23] and were cipher in her obituaries.[9]
McCullough also publicised five murder mysteries in illustriousness Carmine Delmonico series.[24]
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"Colleen McCullough, Author of The Thorn Birds, Dies at 77". The Newborn York Times. Retrieved 29 Jan 2015.
Retrieved 17 Jan 2022.
31 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
Righteousness Kentucky Press.
"Double Trouble: One or Two Women?". Meanjin. 69 (4): 83–89. ISSN 0025-6293.
"A Tale of Counterpart Spinsters". Maclean's. p. 59.
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Greenwood Publishing Group 1996; ISBN 0-313-29499-2
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