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Colleen McCullough (1937–2015)

Autor/a de El pajaro espino

86+ obres 27,460 Membres 563 Ressenyes 68 preferits

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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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Colleen McCullough

El pajaro espino (1977) 7,510 exemplars
The First Man in Rome (1990) 3,292 exemplars
The Grass Crown (1991) 1,960 exemplars
Caesar's Women (1996) 1,570 exemplars
Fortune's Favorites (1993) 1,495 exemplars
Caesar (1997) 1,462 exemplars
The October Horse (2002) 1,361 exemplars
Antony and Cleopatra (2007) 1,111 exemplars
Morgan's Run (2000) 992 exemplars
The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987) 967 exemplars
The Touch (2003) 757 exemplars
An Indecent Obsession (1981) 681 exemplars
Tim (1974) 630 exemplars
The Song of Troy (1998) 626 exemplars
A Creed for the Third Millennium (1985) 561 exemplars
On, Off (2005) 449 exemplars
Bittersweet: A Novel (2013) 417 exemplars
Angel Puss (2004) 246 exemplars
Parallel deaths (2009) 239 exemplars
Naked Cruelty (2010) 86 exemplars
The Prodigal Son (2012) 81 exemplars
Sins of the Flesh (2013) 59 exemplars
Caesar's Women, Part 1/2 (1996) 22 exemplars
The Thorn Birds, Vol. 2 (1977) 22 exemplars
The Thorn Birds, Vol. 1 (1978) 19 exemplars
Life without the boring bits (2011) 18 exemplars
Caesar's Women, Part 2/2 (1996) 15 exemplars
Fortune's Favorites, Vol. I (1997) 6 exemplars
1996 6 exemplars
Fortune's Favorites, Vol. II (1994) 5 exemplars
The First Man in Rome, Vol. II (2000) 4 exemplars
Anthony and Cleopatra, Vol. 1 (2009) 4 exemplars
The Grass Crown, Vol. II (1992) 3 exemplars
The First Man in Rome, Vol. I (2012) 3 exemplars
Anthony and Cleopatra, Vol. 2 (2009) 3 exemplars
A coroa de ervas (1991) 2 exemplars
The Grasscrown 2 exemplars
A Independência de Uma Mulher (2010) 2 exemplars
LE IDI DI MARZO (2015) 1 exemplars
Ceasar's Women (1996) 1 exemplars
La morte in più 1 exemplars
Poyuschie v ternovnike (2014) 1 exemplars
Fűkoszorú 1 exemplars
Morgan's Run, part 2 (2017) 1 exemplars
Morgan's Run, part 1 (2017) 1 exemplars
O Primeiro Homem de Roma (2013) 1 exemplars
Tim 1 exemplars
Pesem ptic trnovk 1 exemplars
Gorkaia radost (2021) 1 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
McCullough, Colleen
Nom oficial
McCullough, Colleen
McCullough-Robinson, Colleen
Altres noms
Makkalou, Kolin
MacCullough, Colleen
Data de naixement
1937-06-01
Data de defunció
2015-01-29
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Australië
Lloc de naixement
Wellington, New South Wales, Australië
Lloc de defunció
Norfolk Island, Australia
Llocs de residència
Wellington, Nieuw-Zuid-Wales, Australië
Sydney, Australië
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Connecticut VS
Norfolk Eiland
Educació
Neurofysiologie
Professions
Schrijfster
Lerares, Yale Afdeling Neurologie
Onderzoekster,Yale Afdeling Neurologie
Neurofysiologe
Organitzacions
1993: doctoraat in de letteren van de Macquarie Universiteit
Association for the Advancement of Science
Academy of Sciences
Premis i honors
Order of Australia (Officer)
Australian Living Treasure
Biografia breu
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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Obres
86
També de
9
Membres
27,460
Popularitat
#746
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
563
ISBN
1,175
Llengües
26
Preferit
68

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