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 ...

Frank McCourt, who died July 19 at age 78, not only lived through that childhood, but wrote about it, in his evocative, tough-minded 1996 memoir "Angela's Ashes." McCourt was born in Brooklyn ...

The tale of how the Lion's Head bar, along with three women Mary Breasted, Molly Friedrich, and Ellen McCourt, led to the publication of "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir", published back in 1996.

And so Frank McCourt, who died on Sunday aged 78 after ... McCourt's searing bestseller Angela's Ashes, which has sold some five million copies, also began a terrible feud. Locals called him ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank McCourt was a reporter's dream. Sure, he was a great writer. With the Pulitzer prize-winning Angela's Ashes, his wrenching account of a "miserable Irish childhood" in the slums of Limerick ...

poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir “Angela’s Ashes,” died Sunday of cancer. He was 78. Frank McCourt obituary: The obituary of author Frank ...

Noah Adams talks to writer Frank McCourt, who has published his first book at the age of 66. It chronicles his childhood in Limerick, Ireland — years spent in abject poverty. His father spent ...

"Scatter my ashes on the Shannon." That was the last request from Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Angela’s Ashes." McCourt died at a Manhattan hospice today surrounded ...