Frank McCourt, the best-selling author of Angela's Ashes, has died aged 78. He had contracted meningitis after battling skin cancer, and his condition had progressively worsened over the last two ...

Frank McCourt, the author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, is a retired English teacher. He lives in New York City. Q: What do you see as some of the major obstacles to improving public schools in our ...

When author Frank McCourt and his brothers headlined the Woodstock Memoir Festival in February, no one would have guessed the "Angela's Ashes" author would pass away five months later at 78.

Wherever Frank ... McCourt is now, and whatever sins he has to answer for, one will surely be that he bears much of the blame for the endless waves of memoirs that have been engulfing us since ...

Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty ...

The 30-minute short is based on Frank McCourt's 1996 Pulitzer-prize winning novel Angela's Ashes: A Memoir following McCourt and his family's early and often arduous life in Brooklyn, New York and ...

the writer Frank McCourt, worked on “Angela Ashes.” Frank McCourt’s students learned from him that literature was nothing more — and nothing less — than the telling of stories.

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 ...