Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neurophysiologist, she
established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. In 1963 she moved to the United Kingdom where she met the chairman of the neurology department at Yale University at the Great Ormond Street hospital in London, who offered her a research associate job at Yale. McCullough spent ten years researching and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale
Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut. In the late 1970s she
settled on Norfolk Island in the Pacific, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson, to whom she has been married since 1983. She now lives in Sydney.
Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds, a record-breaking international bestseller. She has also written lyrics for musical theater.
Masters of Rome
The First Man in Rome (1990)
The Grass Crown (1991)
Fortune's Favourites (1993)
Caesar's Women (1995)
Novels Tim (1974) The Thorn Birds (1977) An Indecent Obsession (1981) A Creed for the Third Millennium (1985) The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987) The Song of Troy (1998) Caesar: Let The Dice Fly (1999) Morgan's Run (2000) The October Horse: A Novel Of Caesar And Cleopatra (2002) Caesar (2003) The Touch (2003) Angel (2005) On, Off (2006) Antony and Cleopatra (2007) The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet (2008)
This biography was last updated on 12/28/2008.
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