New York Times: Frank McCourt, Author of ‘Angela’s Ashes,’ Dies at 78
Frank McCourt, Author of ‘Angela’s Ashes,’ Dies at 78
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: July 19, 2009
Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela’s Ashes,” died in Manhattan on Sunday. He was 78 and lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Conn.
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