biography
| name: |
McCullough, Colleen
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pronunciation:
[muhkuhluh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Wellington, New South Wales, SE Australia. She studied in Sydney and London, and pursued a career as a neurophysiologist in Sydney, London, and Yale University Medical School. She then moved to Norfolk I in the South Pacific (1979) and became a best-selling novelist. Her books include Tim (1974), The Thorn Birds (1977), which sold 20 million copies, A Creed for the Third Millennium (1985), The First Man in Rome (1990), The Grass Crown (1991), Caesar's Women (1995), and Caesar: A Novel (1997). In 1999 she produced The Courage and the Will, a biography of Roden Cutler. |
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