# Dead Pool Double-Header: McKuen/McCullogh
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 30, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296 "2015-01-30T01:27:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296/1 "2015-01-30T01:27:52Z")
Rod McKuen - Dead at 81.
Colleen McCullogh - Dead at 77.
McCullough is the author of “The Thornbirds.” McKuen is the author of way too many over-wrought emo poems in the 60s/70s.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296/2 "2015-01-30T15:31:22Z")
Sorry to hear about Rod McKuen. In the 60s, I was a big fan of the Glenn Yarbrough albums wherein he put a lot of McKuen’s poems to music. Sentimental and angst-ridden, yes, but Yarbrough’s voice turned them into lovely ballads, particularly the Stanyon Street poems. They resonated with those who had loved and lost.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296/3 "2015-01-30T20:55:49Z")
Why did I think McKuen was long dead? Oh well, now I’m at least half right, may he RIP.
I liked _Thorn Birds_ but bought the Rome series mainly for their very useful appendices.
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### Author:  [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296/4 "2015-01-30T21:33:20Z")
Rod McKuen: emo when emo wasn’t cool.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296/5 "2015-01-30T22:23:33Z")
McCullough also wrote the **Masters of Rome** series - a multi-volume, historically-consistent fictionalization of the history of Rome which is pretty fucking brilliant in my book!
Thanks Colleen - you did good work.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-pool-double-header-mckuen-mccullogh/711296/6 "2015-02-03T23:06:59Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> McCullough also wrote the **Masters of Rome** series - a multi-volume, historically-consistent fictionalization of the history of Rome which is pretty fucking brilliant in my book!
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> Thanks Colleen - you did good work.
She made herself such an authority on Roman history that profs consulted her, or so I’ve heard.