When she was young, Colleen McCullough realized she would spend her old age in poverty unless she started to write. “As I moved through my 20s and 30s, I became aware that I was going to be a 70 ...

Best-seller Colleen McCullough a big woman with an even bigger personality and intellect By Patricia Maunder Updated January 29, 2015 — 11.32pm first published at 7.53pm ...

Australian author Colleen McCullough has died at age 77 after a long illness. ... who played a young, intellectually disabled handyman who had a romance with a middle-aged woman.

Colleen McCullough dies; ... who played a young, intellectually disabled handyman who had a romance with a middle-aged woman. Her second novel, ...

Australian author Colleen McCullough has died at age 77 after a long illness. ... who played a young, intellectually disabled handyman who had a romance with a middle-aged woman.

Australian Author, Colleen McCullough, has died at the age of 77. Her most famous novel, The Thorn Birds, a story of an unlikely affair between a young woman and a priest, sold more than 30 ...

Colleen McCullough, the Australian writer, who has died aged 77, shot to fame when her second novel The Thorn Birds (1977), an epic story of a doomed romance between a Catholic priest and a woman ...

Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of 1977 bestseller, The Thorn Birds, which served as the basis for one of the most popular TV miniseries ever, died today on Australia’s Norfolk Island.

Her first novel "Tim" was published in 1974. It became a movie starring Mel Gibson, who played a young, intellectually disabled handyman who had a romance with a middle-aged woman.

Colleen McCullough, whose novel "The Thorn Birds" sold 30 million copies around the world and was turned into a highly-rated 1983 television miniseries, died Thursday. She was 77.

Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of 1977 bestseller, The Thorn Birds, which served as the basis for one of the most popular TV miniseries ever, died today on Australia's Norfolk Island.

Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose novel “The Thorn Birds” sold 30 million copies worldwide, has died at age 77 after a long illness.McCullough died Thursday in a ...