Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough (born June 1, 1937, Wellington, New South Wales, Australia—died January 29, 2015, Norfolk Island, Australia) was an Australian novelist who worked in a range of genres but was best known for her second novel, the sweeping romance The Thorn Birds (1977; television miniseries 1983), and for her Masters of Rome series (1990–2007), a painstakingly researched fictionalized account of Rome in the age of Julius Caesar. McCullough was born in the Australian Outback. Her...