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- McCullough was educated as an Irish Catholic, attending parochial school for twelve years, then going on to Holy Cross College, and she graduated with honors in English, chemistry, and botany.
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The Thorn Birds. The Ladies of Missalonghi. Spouse. Ric Robinson. . ( m. 1984) . Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO ( / məˈkʌlə /; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; [1] 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi .
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda—a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland —the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best-selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies ...
McCullough was educated as an Irish Catholic, attending parochial school for twelve years, then going on to Holy Cross College, and she graduated with honors in English, chemistry, and botany....
Australian writer Colleen McCullough has died at 77; she was best known for her doomed Outback romance saga The Thorn Birds, famously adapted for TV with Richard Chamberlain as a passionate...
Jan 30, 2015 · McCullough’s 1977 runaway bestseller, The Thorn Birds, which sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, was described by Germaine Greer as her favourite “bad book”, and became a mini-series ...
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Mar 9, 2014 · Flipboard. Email. Therese Walsh knows Colleen McCullough's famous novel — which contains not just sex, but sex with a priest -- might not be "appropriate" for teens. But, she says, it's the...
Jan 29, 2015 · Colleen McCullough, the Australian writer, who has died aged 77, shot to fame when her second novel The Thorn Birds (1977), an epic story of a doomed romance between a Catholic priest and a...
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