Oh, to have had a high-school teacher like Frank McCourt. A charming raconteur with an Irish brogue, McCourt seems like a student's dream. Are you an expert in forging excuse notes from your parents?

Frank McCourt is a guy with a good prose style and a bad conscience. The Pulitzer Prize winning writer of "Angela's Ashes" and " 'Tis," McCourt now adds "Teacher Man," a memoir about his life as an ...

Frank McCourt, the former New York City public school teacher from Ireland who gained fame for the autobiographical "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, July 19, of cancer at a Manhattan hospice. He was 78.

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 his ...

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 ...