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The first book-length study of the work of Collen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds and other popular novels.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Kathleen Gregory Klein Colleen McCullough--The Woman and the Writer A Writer of Many Genres Tim: An Unequal Romance The Thorn Birds: A Novel Which Made a Career An Indecent Obsession: Love and Duty A Creed for the Third Millennium: A Grim Future The Ladies of Missalonghi: A Cynical Romance "The Masters of Rome" series (The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortune's Favorites): A Brutal Ancient World Bibliography Index

About the Author

MARY JEAN DeMARR, is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana State University. She is co-author, with Jane S. Bakerman, of two books, Adolescent Female Portraits in the American Novel, 1961-1981: An Annotated Bibliography (1983) and The Adolescent in the American Novel Since 1960 (1986). She is editor of In the Beginning: First Novels in Mystery Series (1995) and co-editor of The Dog Didn't Do It: Animals in Mysteries (forthcoming). Her major interests are modern American literature, women's literature, and detective and other popular fiction.