Editing Colleen McCullough (section)

{{Short description|Australian author (1937–2015)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2017}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AO}}
| image = Colleen McCullough.jpg 
| caption= McCullough in 2013
| birth_name = Colleen Margaretta McCullough
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|6|1}}
| birth_place = [[Wellington, New South Wales]], Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|1|29|1937|6|1|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Burnt Pine]], Norfolk Island
| occupation = {{cslist|Novelist|[[neuroscientist]]}}
| genre = {{cslist|Fiction|fantasy|drama}}
| notableworks = {{cslist|''[[The Thorn Birds]]''|''[[The Ladies of Missalonghi]]''}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Ric Robinson|1984}}
}}

'''Colleen Margaretta McCullough''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|k|ʌ|l|ə}}; married name '''Robinson''', previously '''Ion-Robinson''';<ref name="tehageobit"/> 1 June 1937{{spaced ndash}}29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being ''[[The Thorn Birds]]'' and ''[[The Ladies of Missalonghi]]''.