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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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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.

NEW YORK — Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive, the author’s brother says. Malachy McCourt says that his 78-year-old brother, best known for the million-selling ...

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 ...

After "Angela's Ashes," McCourt continued his story, to strong but diminished sales and reviews, in "'Tis," which told of his return to New York in the 1940s, and in "Teacher Man." McCourt also wrote ...