Australian author Colleen McCullough died in
hospital on Norfolk Island today, aged 77. McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales, on June 1, 1937. Her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. McCullough's best-known work was The
Thorn Birds.
Before entering tertiary education, she had earned a living as a teacher, librarian and journalist. She worked as a neuroscientist in Royal North Shore Hospital
in Sydney. In 1963 she moved to Britain and then spent 10 years from April 1967 researching and teaching in
the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven,
Connecticut. It was while at Yale that she wrote her first two
books. One of these was The Thorn Birds, which became an international best seller and in 1983 a popular television mini-series.
In 1980 she settled in the isolation of Norfolk
Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean situated between Australia, New
Zealand and New Caledonia, 880 miles directly east of mainland
Australia's Evans Head.
The island is part of Australia.
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