Pulitzer Prize-winner Frank McCourt, who captivated readers with his funny but heart-wrenching memoir of a hardscrabble childhood in Ireland, has died. He was 78. The author of Angela's Ashes and ...

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"Angela’s Ashes” by Frank McCourt is the March selection for IrishCentral’s Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of ...

Frank McCourt, who melted the hearts of millions of readers with "Angela's Ashes," a lyrically poignant memoir of his poverty-stricken Irish childhood, died of melanoma July 19 in New York. He was 78.

Malachy McCourt in 1980: he was resident storyteller on The Tonight Show and an occasional character actor - Walt Disney Television Photo Archives Malachy McCourt, who has died aged 92, was a younger ...

Frank McCourt taught in the New York City public schools for twenty-seven years, the last seventeen of which were spent at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. After retiring from teaching, Frank and ...

Anyone who read Frank McCourt, much less knew the man, understood that while he could write beautifully and humorously, he had no use for shallow, sappy emotions. Congratulate him on one of his books, ...

NEW YORK — Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe" about his ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frank McCourt, the Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" that chronicled his impoverished upbringing, died on Sunday, The New ...

For most of his life, Frank McCourt was a teacher. But it is as the author of the wildly successful memoir Angela’s Ashes, which recounted his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, that he will be ...