![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking on Radio National's book show a few years ago, McCullough spoke of how she started writing, buying a typewriter with money given to her by her mother for a much-needed overcoat. She taught herself to read by the time she was three. ![]() Her mother Laurie was a New Zealander of Maori ancestry and her father Jim was an Irish immigrant who worked as a cane cutter and spent long periods away from the family. Early life spent studying science, medicineīorn in Wellington, New South Wales, McCullough spent most of her childhood in Sydney. Her final book Bittersweet was published in 2013 and she had been working on a sequel when she died. McCullough continued to write in several genres, producing books including An Indecent Obsession, Morgan's Run and The Ladies of Missalonghi.īut it was her seven-book, intensely researched, historical series Masters of Rome that won her much acclaim, including plaudits from politicians including Bob Carr, Henry Kissinger and Newt Gingrich. It too was dramatised and became one of actor Mel Gibson's first films. ![]() Her first novel, Tim, written in 1974, tells the story of the relationship between an older woman and a younger, developmentally impaired man. ![]()
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