WRITER

Colleen McCullough

1937 - 2015

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Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colleen McCullough has received more than 813,937 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Colleen McCullough is the 798th most popular writer (down from 759th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Australia (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Writer.

Colleen McCullough is most famous for her book The Thorn Birds, which was published in 1977.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Colleen McCullough ranks 798 out of 7,302. Before her are Leon Uris, Georges Bernanos, Marie d'Agoult, Alexander Litvinenko, Cesare Pavese, and Ibycus. After her are Dio Chrysostom, Maya Angelou, Pietro Bembo, Jamal Khashoggi, Sarojini Naidu, and Tatian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Colleen McCullough ranks 44. Before her are Sajida Talfah, Avram Hershko, Philip Glass, Juvénal Habyarimana, Claude Lelouch, and Jacques Santer. After her are Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Angelo Badalamenti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Roger Zelazny, Robert Huber, and Andrei Konchalovsky. Among people deceased in 2015, Colleen McCullough ranks 43. Before her are Boris Nemtsov, Yoichiro Nambu, Alcides Ghiggia, Wes Craven, Yevgeny Primakov, and Günter Schabowski. After her are James Last, Faten Hamama, Frei Otto, René Girard, James Horner, and Fatema Mernissi.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Colleen McCullough ranks 22 out of 1,143. Before her are Paul Hogan (1939), Julian Assange (1971), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), Jack Brabham (1926), Peter Weir (1944), and Errol Flynn (1909). After her are Hugh Jackman (1968), Mara (null), John Eccles (1903), V. Gordon Childe (1892), Robin Warren (1937), and Peter Singer (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Colleen McCullough ranks 1. After her are P. L. Travers (1899), James Clavell (1921), Rhonda Byrne (1945), Thomas Keneally (1935), Annette Kellermann (1887), Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), Germaine Greer (1939), Banjo Paterson (1864), and John Flanagan (1944).

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