Frank McCourt, the Brooklyn−born Pulitzer Prize−winning author whose memoir of a miserable childhood skyrocketed him to international fame, died July 19 in Manhattan. He was 78 years old. The cause of ...

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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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist Frank McCourt combined his own experiences with poverty and years of teaching with a charming wit to captivate listeners at his lecture at the John F. Kennedy Library ...

Bob Edwards talks with author Frank McCourt about his latest book, 'Tis : A Memoir, a sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning Angela's Ashes.

Frank McCourt taught in the New York City public schools for twenty-seven years, the last seventeen of which were spent at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. After retiring from teaching, Frank and ...