![]() ![]() From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of earth. It was while at Yale that she wrote her first two books, Tim (1974) and the Thornbirds (1977). McCullough spent ten years from April 1967 to 1976 researching and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. In 1963 she moved for four years to the United Kingdom at the Great Ormond Street hospital in London, she met the chairman of the neurology department at Yale University who offered her a research associate job at Yale. During her childhood, her family moved around a great deal, and eventually settled in Sydney, where she attended Holy Cross College having a strong interest in the humanities. Her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. McCullough was born in Wellington, in outback central west New South Wales, in 1937. ![]() ![]() Colleen McCullough-Robinson is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. ![]()
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