Who wrote The Thorn Birds?

Colleen mccullough is one of the most influential contemporary Australian writers. She was born in a family of animal husbandry workers in Wellington, western New South Wales, Australia on June 1937, and moved to Sydney at the age of twelve. In the past, this family lived a nomadic life. Colleen mccullough has shown extraordinary artistic talent since she was a child. She began to write poems, tell stories and learn to draw pictures at the age of five. However, the great influence of the Great Depression on this working family made her realize very early that literature and art can hardly bring food and clothing to her family, and her talent and interest in mathematics and natural science prompted her to embark on a completely different road from literary creation. Colleen mccullough began to study neurophysiology at the University of Sydney in 1950s, and founded the department of neurophysiology at Royal North Shore Hospital after graduation. Five years later, in order to further improve her academic level, she went to the School of Children's Health, University of London to do research. After that, he moved to the United States and worked in Yale Medical College for ten years, becoming an influential neurophysiologist. She is still the honorary chairman of the Prince of Wales Institute of Medicine, the patron of the Australian Geriatrics Foundation, and the honorary consultant of the neurophysiology department of the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. At the same time, in order to promote the neurophysiological research in the third world, especially to train female doctors in this field, she helped Yale Medical College to establish a department of neurophysiology. Together with Sir Roden Cutler, a famous medical scientist, she was on the list of 100 outstanding people in Australia.

However, what really made Colleen mccullough famous in the world was her literary talent. 1972, she wrote her first novel Tim in her spare time. After the book 1974 was published in the United States, it was quickly made into a movie, which not only brought a lot of economic benefits to Colleen McCullough, but also made her a dazzling star in the western literary world overnight. For Colleen mccullough, this is only the first step in her literary career. 1977, she mobilized her life accumulation, created and published The Thorn Birds, which is a painstaking work. Once published, it caused a sensation. It has not only been made into a film and widely circulated, but also translated into more than 20 languages and published all over the world, making it one of the best-selling novels in the contemporary world. The royalty income of paperback alone was as high as1900,000 dollars, which was the highest in the American publishing industry at that time.

The Thorn Birds not only made Colleen mccullough rich and famous, but also broke the peace and tranquility she liked since she was a child. After many twists and turns, she finally left "turbulent and noisy America" and returned to Australia after a long absence, and settled in norfolk island on 1980 1 month. Norfolk island is an island five miles long and three miles wide in the deep Pacific Ocean. It is an independent territory, which is 0/000 mile from the east coast of Australia/Kloc. Colleen mccullough has no friends on this small island, not even an acquaintance. After experiencing loneliness and irritability for the first six months, she found this is her ideal paradise. Her creative enthusiasm is overwhelming on this quiet and beautiful island. In the past twenty years, he has written and published ten novels and a biography. Among them, the series "The Master of Rome" has aroused great repercussions in academic circles, so she is regarded as a historian. 1994, Colleen mccullough was awarded an honorary doctorate by Macquarie University. 1997, he became a member of the board of supervisors of the International Program Center of the Department of Political Science of the University of Oklahoma.