Colleen McCullough authored the Masters of Rome series which included The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortune’s Favorites, Caesar’s Women, Caesar, The October Horse, and Antony and Cleopatra. Her Carmine Delmonico series includes On, Off, Too Many Murders, Naked Cruelty, The Prodigal Son, and Sins of the Flesh. She also authored the biography The Courage and the Will: The Life of Roden Cutler VC and her memoir Life Without the Boring Bits. Colleen McCullough passed away on January 29, 2015 at 77 years old.