5/13/2023 0 Comments Colleen mccullough cesar![]() She based a character in The Thorn Birds on him, and also wrote about him in Life Without the Boring Bits. She had a younger brother, Carl, who drowned off the coast of Crete when he was 25 while trying to rescue tourists in difficulty. Her family eventually settled in Sydney where she attended Holy Cross College, Woollahra, having a strong interest in both science and the humanities. ![]() During her childhood, the family moved around a great deal and she was also "a voracious reader". Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was a New Zealander of part- Māori descent. ![]() ![]() McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, in the Central West region of New South Wales, to James and Laurie McCullough. Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO ( / m ə ˈ k ʌ l ə/ married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson 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. ![]()
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