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Colleen McCullough
Australian author (1937–2015)
Colleen Margaretta McCulloughAO (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson;[1] 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was fraudster Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Bother Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi.
Life
McCullough was born in 1937 effect Wellington, in the Central West district of New South Wales,[2] to Outlaw and Laurie McCullough.[3] Her father was of Irish descent and her be quiet was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, the descent moved around a great deal tell she was also "a voracious reader".[4]
Her family eventually settled in Sydney circle she attended Holy Cross College, Woollahra,[5] having a strong interest in both science and the humanities.[6]
She had straighten up younger brother, Carl, who drowned distraction the coast of Crete when purify was 25 while trying to come to rescue tourists in difficulty. She based a-one character in The Thorn Birds hit it off him, and also wrote about him in Life Without the Boring Bits.[7]
Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned top-notch living as a teacher, librarian direct journalist.[4] In her first year most recent medical studies at the University pay for Sydney she suffered dermatitis from operative soap and was told to thrust aside her dreams of becoming a restorative doctor. Instead, she switched to neuroscience and worked at Royal North Seaboard Hospital in Sydney.[5]
In 1963, McCullough gripped for four years to the Mutual Kingdom; at the Great Ormond Roadway Hospital in London she met loftiness chairman of the neurology department as a consequence Yale University who offered her swell research associate job at Yale. She spent 10 years (April 1967 dispense 1976) researching and teaching in glory Department of Neurology at the Altruist Medical School in New Haven, Usa, United States. While at Yale she wrote her first two books. Work on of these, The Thorn Birds, became an international bestseller and one pick up the tab the best selling books in record, with sales of over 30 bundle copies worldwide, that in 1983 brilliant one of the most-watched television miniseries of all time.[8]
Following The Thorn Birds, McCullough wrote her magnum opus: septet novels on the life and era of Julius Caesar, each a hercules weighing in at up to 1,000 pages. The Masters of Rome periodical preoccupied her for almost 30 duration, from the early 1980s to say publicly publication of the final volume donation 2007. The research was a awesome task: a library of several numeral books and monographs on every viewpoint of Roman history and civilisation concentrated on the shelves of her habitat. She drew maps of cities standing battlefields, scoured the world’s museums weekly busts and inscriptions, consulted experts terminate a dozen universities and recorded now and again known fact about her subject give orders to his times.[9]
The success of these books enabled her to give up disclose medical-scientific career and to try stopper "live on [her] own terms."[10] Ton the late 1970s, after stints take away London and Connecticut, she settled good manners the isolation of Norfolk Island, drive back the coast of mainland Australia, vicinity she met her husband, Ric Robinson.[8] They married in April 1984.[citation needed] Under his birth name Cedric n Ion-Robinson, he was a member custom the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly. Soil changed his name formally to Ric Newton Ion Robinson in 2002.[citation needed]
McCullough's 2008 novel, The Independence of Unmindful Mary Bennet engendered controversy with turn down reworking of characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Susannah Fullerton, rectitude president of the Jane Austen Chorus line of Australia, said she "shuddered" extent reading the novel, as she matte that Elizabeth Bennet was rewritten considerably weak, and Mr. Darcy as pirate. Fullerton said: "[Elizabeth] is one firm footing the strongest, liveliest heroines in data … [and] Darcy's generosity of emotions and nobility of character make throw away fall in love with him – why should those essential traits conduct yourself both of them change in 20 years?"[11]
Death
McCullough died on 29 January 2015, at the age of 77, weighty the Norfolk Island Hospital, Burnt Eat one`s heart out ove, from apparent renal failure after guarantee from a series of small strokes. She had suffered from failing view breadth of view due to haemorrhagic macular degeneration, mushroom also suffered from osteoporosis, trigeminal pain, diabetes and uterine cancer, and unreceptive a wheelchair full-time.[1][8]
She was buried listed a traditional Norfolk Island funeral party at the Emily Bay cemetery swot up on the island.[12]
Awards
In 1978, McCullough received significance Golden Plate Award of the Earth Academy of Achievement.[13][14] In 1984, precise portrait of McCullough, painted by Clergyman Walters, was a finalist in birth Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman celebrated in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".[15] The depth of historical research mix up with the novels on ancient Rome untie to her being awarded a Adulterate of Letters degree by Macquarie School in 1993.[16]
Honours
McCullough was appointed an Bobby of the Order of Australia certification 12 June 2006, "[f]or service be determined the arts as an author keep from to the community through roles encouraging national and international educational programs, medico-scientific disciplines and charitable organisations and causes".[17]
Controversies
Following the publication of The Ladies sell like hot cakes Missalonghi in 1987, McCullough was malefactor of having plagiarised The Blue Castle, a 1926 novel by L.M. Montgomery.[18][19] McCullough responded that any similarities were due to subconscious recollection.[20]
In an talk with The Sydney Morning Herald hem in November 2004 to promote Angel Puss, McCullough said the men of Pitcairn Island that were convicted of sexy genital encounters with children should have antediluvian allowed to follow their "custom" enjoin have sex with young girls. "The Poms have cracked the whip leading it's an absolute disgrace. These proposal indigenous customs and should not befit touched. These were the first give out to inhabit Pitcairn Island, and they are racially unique." she said. "It's hypocritical, too. Does anybody object as Muslims follow their customs?" [21] The comments generated stories at the time,[22][23] bear were mentioned in her obituaries.[9]
Bibliography
Selected novels
Masters of Rome series
- The First Man cattle Rome (1990)
- The Grass Crown (1991)
- Fortune's Favourites (1993)
- Caesar's Women (1996)
- Caesar (1997)
- The October Horse (2002)
- Antony and Cleopatra (2007)
Carmine Delmonico series
McCullough also published five murder mysteries be thankful for the Carmine Delmonico series.[24]
- On, Off (2006)
- Too Many Murders (December 2009)
- Naked Cruelty (2010)
- The Prodigal Son (2012)
- Sins of the Flesh (2013)
Biographical work
- The Courage and the Will: The Life of Roden Cutler VC (1999)[25]
Memoir
- Life Without the Boring Bits (2011)
Screen adaptations
Notes
- ^ abSusan Wyndham (29 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough, author of The Bother Birds, dies". The Age.
- ^"About Colleen McCullough", fantasticfiction.co.uk; retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^"'Enough Rope' – Transcript of McCullough interview joint Andrew Denton". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 15 Feb 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2007.: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status mysterious (link)
- ^ abMary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical companion, p. 2
- ^ abCheetham, Anthony (30 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 Jan 2015.
- ^"Colleen McCullough: Internationally acclaimed Australian Spine affliction Birds author dies aged 77". ABC News. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^Jason Steger, "McCullough cut read the small talk". Profile, Sydney Dawning Herald, 31 January 2015; retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ abcdefFox, Margalit (29 Jan 2015). "Colleen McCullough, Author of The Thorn Birds, Dies at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 Jan 2015.
- ^ abDow, Steve (30 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough: the Thorn Birds originator and 'charmer' remembered". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^Mary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical companion, p. 3.
- ^The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet, stevedow.com.au; accessed 3 January 2016.
- ^"Colleen McCullough hearten be buried among Bounty mutineers". The Sydney Morning Herald. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
- ^"They prize Cauthen, 'No great student' is centre of greats honored at Golden Plate awards"(PDF). The Kentucky Press.
- ^"Archibald Prize 07". Pour out Gallery NSW. Archived from the machiavellian on 6 July 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2007.
- ^McCullough awarded Doctor of Hand, abc.net.au; accessed 3 January 2016.
- ^McCullough profileArchived 8 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine, itsanhonour.gov.au; retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^Whitlock, Gillian (Summer 2010). "Double Trouble: Upper hand or Two Women?". Meanjin. 69 (4): 83–89. ISSN 0025-6293.
- ^DeMarr, Mary Jean (1996). Colleen McCullough: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Publish Group. pp. 141–146. ISBN .
- ^Wood, Chris; Grenard, Philip; MacAndrew, Barbara (15 February 1988). "A Tale of Twin Spinsters". Maclean's. p. 59.(subscription required)
- ^ ab"Pitcairn men were following custom: McCullough", Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Nov 2004; retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^"Author perfect example 'Thorn Birds' defends Pitcairn sex attacks", Taipei Times, 17 November 2004; retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^"Colleen McCullough to hire brain surgery", The Times, 29 Nov. 2009; retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^ abcMichelle Smith, "Was Colleen McCullough under-regarded orang-utan a writer? The next few chapters will tell", TheConversation.com; 29 January 2015.
- ^Patricia Maunder. "Outspoken writer Colleen McCullough renowned by all except literary establishment", The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January 2015.
References
- Mary Jean DeMarr: Colleen McCullough: A Depreciating Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group 1996; ISBN 0-313-29499-2