The Australian Insults Colleen McCullough in Obit, Inciting Ire

Yet in her home country of Australia, the newspaper The Australian opened its obituary with this:

Australian Obit “Australia’s bestselling author was a charmer. Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.”

Let me repeat that: “Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.”

Not surprisingly, her friends and comrades in the literary world took to Twitter under the hashtag #myozobituary to mock the obituary.