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Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller.…
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science · Australian author (1937–2015) · novelist · physician writer · neurologist · biographer · science fiction writer · screenwriter · physician · writer · also Colleen McCullough, Colleen Margaretta McCullough, McCullough
Born 1 June 1937 · Died 29 January 2015 · Q228801
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2020· 1 entry
Published “An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 3,001 times.
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2018· 1 entry
The New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that McCullough had not been coerced into signing the later document and awarded her estate to her husband
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2015· 2 entries
Died 2015-01-29.
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“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite” in Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems — cited 3,714 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Released her final novel, Bittersweet, which depicted four sisters living in 1920s New South Wales
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Pioglitazone, Vitamin E, or Placebo for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,886 times.
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2008· 1 entry
McCullough released a sequel to Pride and Prejudice entitled The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett
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2007· 1 entry
With the release of its seventh entry, Antony and Cleopatra
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Design and validation of a histological scoring system for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease†” in Hepatology — cited 9,501 times.
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2004· 1 entry
After criticising the conviction of Pitcairn Islands men for child sexual abuse, arguing that sex with minors was a custom on the island and that it was wrong for Britain to interfere with the Polynesian inhabitants' ind
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1997· 2 entries
And was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2006
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Published “A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,724 times.
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1987· 1 entry
McCullough published a short romance novel titled The Ladies of Missalonghi
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1985· 1 entry
A dystopian work of science fiction that was less commercially successful and was poorly received by critics
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1983· 1 entry
And has since been translated into 20 languages
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1981· 1 entry
McCullough published her next novel, An Indecent Obsession
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1977· 1 entry
McCullough published her second and best-known book, The Thorn Birds
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1974· 2 entries
Depicts the romance between a middle-aged woman and a younger intellectually disabled man
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While working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim
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1965· 1 entry
After rescuing a pair of swimmers off the coast of Crete; while his death was ruled an accident, McCullough believed that it was a suicide
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1937· 1 entry
Born 1937-06-01.
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