Colleen McCullough (1937–2015)
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Colleen McCullough was born on June 1, 1937 in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia. She attended Holy Cross College and the University of Sydney. She wanted to pursue a career in medicine but had an allergic reaction to the antiseptic soap that surgeons use to scrub. She decided to study näytä lisää neuroscience and established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her first novel, Tim, was published in 1974 and was adapted into a movie starring Mel Gibson. During her lifetime, she wrote 25 novels including The Thorn Birds, An Indecent Obsession, A Creed for the Third Millennium, The Ladies of Missalonghi, the Masters of Rome series, and Bittersweet. The Thorn Birds was adapted into a U.S. television mini-series in 1983, which won four Golden Globe awards. She died after a long illness on January 29, 2015 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
The First Man in Rome / The Grass Crown / Fortune's Favorites / Caesar's Women / Caesar (1998) 25 kappaletta
1996 6 kappaletta
The October Horse, Vol. II 3 kappaletta
Uccello di Rovo - I giovedì della signora Giulia — Tekijä — 3 kappaletta
The October Horse, Vol. I 3 kappaletta
The Grasscrown 2 kappaletta
The Grass Crown, Vol. I 2 kappaletta
Die Ladies von Missalonghi 1 kappale
28.- Favoritos de la Fortuna (I) 1 kappale
CESARS'S WOMEN (PVL94) 1 kappale
La morte in più 1 kappale
20.- La Corona de Hierba (I) 1 kappale
21.- La Corona de Hierba (II) 1 kappale
Tim Autora De El Pajaro Canta Hasta Morir By Collen McCullough ( La Novela Romantica) Spanish Edition 1980 (1980) 1 kappale
Colleen McCullough - 2 Books 1 kappale
Oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (Les): COLLECTION 40EME ANNIVERSAIRE (LITTÉRATURE ÉTRANGÈRE) (1999) 1 kappale
L'indipendenza della signorina Bennet 1 kappale
Fűkoszorú 1 kappale
The Birthday Present 1 kappale
Water is Life: The True Story of Water and the Australian Invention Changing the Way the World Boils It (2016) 1 kappale
La Casa Degli Angeli 1 kappale
O Primeiro Homem de Roma - Coroa de Erva 1 kappale
O Primeiro Homem de Roma - César 1 kappale
Tiếng Chim Hót Trong Bụi Mận Gai 1 kappale
Tim 1 kappale
Pesem ptic trnovk 1 kappale
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 159 - Bittere Medizin. Die Ladies von Missalonghi. Der Tunnel. Meine Zeit mit Anne Frank (1977) 12 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Long Kill • The Ladies of Missalonghi • Exodus Genesis • Just Another Kid (1989) 2 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- McCullough, Colleen
- Virallinen nimi
- McCullough, Colleen
McCullough-Robinson, Colleen - Muut nimet
- Makkalou, Kolin
MacCullough, Colleen - Syntymäaika
- 1937-06-01
- Kuolinaika
- 2015-01-29
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Australië
- Syntymäpaikka
- Wellington, New South Wales, Australië
- Kuolinpaikka
- Norfolk Island, Australia
- Asuinpaikat
- Wellington, Nieuw-Zuid-Wales, Australië
Sydney, Australië
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Connecticut VS
Norfolk Eiland - Koulutus
- Neurofysiologie
- Ammatit
- Schrijfster
Lerares, Yale Afdeling Neurologie
Onderzoekster,Yale Afdeling Neurologie
Neurofysiologe - Organisaatiot
- 1993: doctoraat in de letteren van de Macquarie Universiteit
Association for the Advancement of Science
Academy of Sciences - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Order of Australia (Officer)
Australian Living Treasure - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Colleen McCullough was born in Wellington, an outback town in Australia. Her family life was somewhat rough, her mother being rather aggressive toward her and burning any manuscripts of Colleen's she found. In adulthood, McCullough attempted to become a surgeon, but developed an allergic reaction to the surgical soap and switched to neuroscience. After several years working abroad, she received a position at the famed Yale University. It was during this time that she wrote Tim and her most famous novel, The Thorn Birds. Her success forced her to retire from teaching, and she eventually settled on the isolated Norfolk Island, where she lives with husband Ric Robinson, a descendant of the Bounty mutineers.
In recent years, McCullough has completed numerous novels, including the controversial The Independence of Mis Mary Bennet, her Masters of Rome series, and several stand along works. She is a National Living Treasure of Australia and still uses a typewriter to complete her novels.
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ANZAC Author Reading Challenge- February 2015- Cate Kennedy & Maurice Shadbolt, 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (maaliskuu 2015)
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The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome) Tekijä: Colleen McCullough
This is what you get when you combine ‘epic’ with ‘historical fiction’. While this book is never going to win any races for fast pacing, the level of detail and research together with the masterful weaving together of historical events into a story containing vivid settings and a cast of hundreds that all fully come alive in the pages makes for a way of enjoying this period of history in a way that is unrivalled. Having learnt significantly more about the late Roman Republic since the first time I read this book, I was able to appreciate it even more for all the little hints, references and off hand remarks which lend further depth to the story that McCullough crafts while also creating subtle links to future events. Marius and Sulla remain my two of my favourite Roman figures as a result of this book, and I think this will always be confort food for me.… (lisätietoja)
Read in 2017 and again in March 2024. One of McCullough's early books and shows her great skill in both chacterisation and story thread. Still a great read.
The story of Richard Morgan. He is living in England during the American Revolution. Wrongly imprisoned he is sent to the new prison colony in Australia. With the American Revolution convicts can no longer be dumped in America, so it comes about the they are being sent to Australia. She shows how horrible the conditions were in the prisons and in the ships. Than those who survive the journey face a very hard life. It is amazing that any make it. This was to be a part of a series. It is a shame she wasn't able to continue the story.… (lisätietoja)
wasn't as good as the first books in the series, and struggled through it
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