Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough is an Australian author of historical fiction, suspense novels and fantasy novels. She writes the Masters of Rome and Carmine Delmonico series. Before she became a writer, McCullough was a neuroscientist. She worked in the Department of Neurology at Yale Medical School for ten year, during which time she wrote her first two books. Originally from Wellington, New South Wales, she lived in Sydney, London and Connecticut and eventually settled on Norfolk Island, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson. Colleen McCullough became a published author in 1976 with her novel Tim. The novel was adapted into a 1976 film starring Mel Gibson (of the same name) as well as a 1996 TV movie titled Mary & Tim. Below is a list of Colleen McCullough’s books in order of when they were first released: Colleen McCullough Synopsis: In Tim by Colleen McCullough, Mary Horton is happy with her simple single life, until Tim comes along. Tim is a handsome young man who has a child-like mind. He’s sort of a gentle outcast in a cruel world. He’s able to brighten Mary’s days simple with his innocence. And he can change the middle-aged spinster’s respeectable, routine life with his forbidden promise of a special love.