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.

Frank McCourt hopes to make TikTok safer to use. He’ll have to buy it first. By Peter Coy Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York where he tended bar and appeared in ...

For most of his life, Frank McCourt was a teacher. But it is as the author of the wildly successful memoir Angela’s Ashes, which recounted his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, that he will be ...

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.

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 tale about his impoverished Irish ...