Frank McCourt - Wikipedia
WEBPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997. Signature. Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of …
Frank McCourt | Biography, Angela’s Ashes, Books, & Facts
WEBMay 2, 2024 · Frank McCourt (born August 19, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died July 19, 2009, New York, New York) was an American author and teacher who was perhaps best known for the memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Frank was the first child of Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt.
Frank McCourt (executive) - Wikipedia
WEBFrank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, owner of the football club Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty.
Frank McCourt dies at 78; late-blooming author of 'Angela's …
WEBJul 20, 2009 · Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer...
Frank McCourt, Whose Irish Childhood Illuminated His Prose, Is …
WEBJul 20, 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...
'Angela's Ashes' Author Frank McCourt Dies : NPR
WEBJul 19, 2009 · Frank McCourt, the Irish-American writer who turned a grim childhood in Ireland into a best-selling memoir, has died. He was 78. McCourt was a retired schoolteacher in his 60s when his first...
Angela's Ashes - Wikipedia
WEBMusical. See also. References. Further reading. External links. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood. The book details his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir , by Frank McCourt (Scribner) - Pulitzer
WEBSo begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages.
Frank McCourt (Author of Angela’s Ashes) - Goodreads
WEBFrancis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and author. McCourt was born in Brooklyn; however, his family returned to their native Ireland in 1934. He received the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for his memoir Angela's Ashes (1996), which details his childhood as a poor Irish Catholic in Limerick.
Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt dies at 78 - The Toronto Star
WEBJul 19, 2009 · 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...
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