Colleen ColleenMcCullough, a famous contemporary Australian writer, was born in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia on June 1937. Originally, he was a medical student with excellent academic performance, but he didn't want to be a doctor and scientific research all his life. She likes writing since she was a child and tries to write. Her first novel was published by Tim 1974.

From 65438 to 0977, The Thorn Birds, written by Colleen mccullough in her spare time, was published. As soon as the novel came out, it reached the best seller list in The New York Times for 59 weeks, and soon sold 30 million copies worldwide. Colleen mccullough, an Australian family novel with a time span from 19 15 to 1969, has attracted readers from generation to generation and is known as Gone with the Wind in Australia. Colleen mccullough has written 25 novels, biographies, essays and even musicals, including The Thorn Birds.

Since colleen mccullough married RicRobinson from norfolk island in 1983, she has been living on this island far from Sydney and Australia, with only over 2,000 residents.

2015 65438+1On October 29th, colleen mccullough died of renal failure in a hospital in norfolk island at the age of 77.

Chinese name: Colleen mccullough.

Mbth: ColleenMcCullough

Nationality: Australia

Place of birth: Wellington, New South Wales, Australia

Date of birth: June 1937+0.

Date of death: 2065438+0565438+129 October.

Occupation: writer

Masterpieces: Thorn Birds, Songs of Troy, and Journey to Morgan.

Personal experience

Colleen mccullough is a versatile writer. Originally, he was a medical student with excellent academic performance. He graduated from the University of New South Wales with honors in science, obtained a master's degree from the Institute of Child Health (London), and then led the technical work of the research laboratory of the Department of Neurology, Yale Medical College, New Haven, USA. She is a patron of several neuroscience research institutions and foundations and a clinical neurophysiological consultant at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

However, McCullough is not willing to be a doctor and do research all his life. She likes writing since she was a child. Her first novel, Tim published by 1974, is also a romantic novel. From 65438 to 0977, The Thorn Birds, written by Colleen mccullough in her spare time, was published. As soon as the novel came out, it reached the best seller list in The New York Times for 59 weeks, and quickly sold well all over the world. Colleen mccullough, an Australian family novel with a time span from 19 15 to 1969, has attracted readers from generation to generation and is known as Gone with the Wind in Australia. 1983, the novel was adapted into a TV series and won six Emmy awards. The TV series Thorn Birds has hundreds of millions of viewers.

Besides novels, she also writes biographies (such as for Sir Roden Cutler, former governor of New South Wales) and essays (such as the famous Why am I against euthanasia? "), and even write musicals. As far as the novel itself is concerned, she is not limited to one genre, including family novels such as The Thorn Birds, historical novels such as The Master of Rome, romantic novels such as The Lady of Misssalonica, conceptual novels such as The Plan for the Third Millennium, and so on ... Colleen McConaughey's extensive creative fields and great achievements. She is never satisfied, and constantly explores new fields and new literary styles in the city. At the same time, her creative attitude is very strict, and she makes in-depth research on the theme of each work, and often changes the manuscript several times.

Main work

The Thorn Birds is regarded as "the most successful family novel and love legend after Gone with the Wind" in western literary circles, and it is called Gone with the Wind by later generations.

Song of Troy is the representative work of Colleen mccullough (1998), the author of the best-selling book The Thorn Birds. Its material mainly comes from the story of the kidnapping of Helen by Paris, the prince of Troy, in Homer's epic. The novel reproduces the war scenes of ancient blood and fire, and describes heroes with different personalities and superb skills, their achievements and their love.

A Journey to Morgan tells a little-known history of a country. Richard Morgan is a kind and upright craftsman. After a series of bad luck of losing his wife and children, he was retaliated by the underworld, arrested and sentenced, and became one of the first felons exiled to Australia. Facing the vast forests and towering mountains, he and the tortured prisoners set up a new home in a wild land. A Journey to Morgan is Colleen mccullough's masterpiece since the publication of her best-selling novel The Thorn Birds, which has unparalleled narrative charm. There are so many vivid characters in the book, mccullough, who brought you into that extremely difficult time, infected you, inspired you, made you happy and had expectations.

In addition, Colleen mccullough also wrote the series "Lord of Rome":

Roman master

1, the first home page (1990)

2、TheGrassCrown( 199 1)

3. Favorite of wealth (1993)

4. Caesar's Woman (1996)

5. Caesar: LettediceFly (1997)

6. TheOctoberHorse(2002)

7. Anthony and Cleopatra (September 2007)

The sixth book TheOctoberHorse has a Chinese translation, namely The Biography of Caesar: October Horse published by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House. (Online comments on its poor translation)

In addition to the world-famous Thorn Birds, Colleen mccullough also wrote other 12 novels, a biography, essays or essays, and even musicals.