![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among other ailments, she had macular degeneration, an eye condition that was blinding her. McCullough had been in declining health for years, according to her publisher, HarperCollins Australia. McCullough, an endearingly blunt personality whose literary output ranged from police procedurals set in Connecticut to a series of seven novels based on her extensive readings in ancient Roman history, died Thursday in a hospital on Norfolk Island, 1,000 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia. Within a few years, "The Thorn Birds," her 1977 saga of a baronial outback family and a priest tormented by love, sold millions of copies and was made into TV's second-most-popular miniseries, topped only by "Roots." "As I moved through my 20s and 30s, I became aware that I was going to be a 70-year-old spinster living in a cold-water, walk-up flat with a single 60-watt light bulb," she later said.īy day, the large, garrulous, Australia-born McCullough ran the neurophysiology lab at Yale University. When she was young, Colleen McCullough realized she would spend her old age in poverty unless she started to write. ![]()
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