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Frank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. (October 11, 1899 – January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908 – December 27, 1981) from Limerick.
But that's what Frank McCourt did with Angela's Ashes, his account, published in 1996, of an utterly miserable childhood survived in Catholic Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s. Stay up to date with ...
Frank McCourt (born August 19, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died July 19, 2009, New York, New York) was an American author and teacher who was perhaps best known for the memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Frank was the first child of Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt.
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Jul 19, 2009 · 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 ...
Jul 20, 2009 · By Dennis McLellan. July 20, 2009 12 AM PT. Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken ...
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Jul 19, 2009 · July 19, 2009, 4:12 PM PDT / Source: The Associated Press. Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes ...
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The Faith of Frank McCourt. Frank McCourt, who died July 19th at age 78, was the most Catholic of authors. The rites and rituals of Ireland’s Catholic Church of the 1930s and ’40s exist at the core of Angela’s Ashes (1996), his great Bildungsroman. That book’s hilarious and irreverent chapter on Mr. McCourt’s preparation for, and ...
