6/5/2023 0 Comments Author the thorn birds![]() ![]() ![]() She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales in 1937. Perhaps it was this background in science and rational reasoning that gave her such a gimlet-eyed view of her parents. She was a neuroscientist by training, who worked in the Royal North Shore hospital before a decade teaching and researching in the department of neurology at Yale medical school in Connecticut McCullough did not set out to be an author, much less one of the biggest selling Australian authors, although her works would range from the mega-seller epic The Thorn Birds to the historical fiction of Masters of Rome and re-writing Mr Darcy as a heartless Tory prime ministerial wannabe. She composed her novels using a typewriter, relying in those later years on her peripheral vision. ![]() She knew even then that her writing days were drawing to a close: the leaking blood vessels and retina damage inflicted by macular degeneration had already stopped her painting and drawing, two other creative loves, because she could no longer see where the brush or nib touched the surface. ![]()
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