Colleen McCullough

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Colleen Margaretta McCullough (married name Robinson, formerly Ion-Robinson, and Missalonghi) was an Australian author best known for her books, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi, the latter of which was embroiled in a plagiarism controversy.

Life

McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, New South Wales' Central West region, to James and Laurie McCullough. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother was a New Zealander of part-Mori descent. During her youth, the family moved around a lot, and she was also "a voracious reader."

Her family eventually settled in Woollahra, Sydney, where she studied Holy Cross College, showing a keen interest in both science and humanities.

Carl, her younger brother, died off the coast of Crete when he was 25 years old, and was looking for visitors in danger. She based a character in The Thorn Birds on him, as well as writing about him in Life Without the Boring Bits.

McCullough spent her time as a teacher, librarian, and journalist before beginning her Tertiary education. In her first year of medical school, she developed dermatitis from surgical soap and was told not to pursue her ambitions of becoming a medical doctor. Rather, she went back to neuroscience and spent time at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

McCullough moved to the United Kingdom in 1963, and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, she met the chairman of Yale University's neurology department, who gave her a research associate position at Yale University. She spent ten years (April 1967 to 1976) researching and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She wrote her first two books at Yale. The Thorn Birds, one of the best-selling books in history, has over 30 million copies worldwide and was one of the most watched television miniseries of all time.

Collecting the Thorn Birds created her magnum opus: seven books on Julius Caesar's life and times, each a coloss weighing in at up to 1,000 pages. The Masters of Rome series has captivated her for nearly 30 years, from the 1980s to the 2007 debut of the final volume. The study was a monumental undertaking: Several thousand books and monographs on every aspect of Roman history and civilisation had accumulated on her house's shelves. She consulted with planners and battlefields, searched the world's museums for busts and inscriptions, interviewed academics in a dozen universities, and collected every known fact about her subject and times.

Because of her books' success, she was able to leave her medical-scientific work and pursue "live on [her] own terms." She settled on Norfolk Island, off the coast of mainland Australia, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson, in the late 1970s, after stints in London and Connecticut. In April 1984, they married. He was a member of the Norfolk Legislative Assembly under his birth name Cedric Newton Ion-Robinson. In 2002, Ric Newton Ion Robinson officially changed his name to Ric Newton Ion Robinson.

Miss Mary Bennet's 2008 book The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet caused controversies in the reworking of characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Susannah Fullerton, the president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, said she "shuddered" while reading the book, because Elizabeth Bennet had been rewritten as weak and Mr. Darcy as savage, and that Mr. Darcy was savage. "Elizabeth] is one of literature's best, liveliest heroines, [and] Darcy's generosity of spirit and nobility of character make her fall in love with him, so why can those fundamental characteristics of both of them change in 20 years?"

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