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Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, Angela's Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.

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Tis Unabridged
Oct 17, 2009
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Chapter 1 from Angela's Ashes
Jun 19, 2009
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Teacher Man
Mar 19, 2009
Angela's Ashes is now available in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
'Tis is now available in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
Teacher Man is now available in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
Angela's Ashes will be released on March 10, 2009 in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
Angela's Ashes is now available in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
'Tis will be released on March 10, 2009 in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
'Tis is now available in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
Teacher Man will be released on March 10, 2009 in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
Teacher Man is now available in Compact Disk
Mar 10, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Angela's Ashes
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Angela's Ashes has won an award
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Daily Breeze, February 10, 2012
...is directly tied to why the Angels could afford to get Albert Pujols into their lineup, and why Frank McCourt thought he had one last card to play in his long-ranged plan to keep the Dodgers. The business side of the media can be covered in spot-news...
China Post, February 10, 2012
...and has largely eschewed formal experimentation. Of her recent readings, Zhang is particularly impressed by how Irish-American writer Frank McCourt deals with suffering in his novel “Angela's Ashes.” “We often say that the Chinese nation has...
Military.com, February 6, 2012
...Schuster Books for Young Readers and will be illustrated by Raul Colon, who has worked on stories by Frank McCourt and Libba Moore Gray. According to Simon & Schuster, "Readers will follow Natalie's experience as she learns to cope with missing her...
Focus Taiwan, February 4, 2012
...by survivors of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China. Zhang also mentioned "Angela's Ashes" by Irish-American writer Frank McCourt as an example of a good novel that shows instead of tells. In the story, children in an Irish village cheer after hearing...
China Post, February 4, 2012
...by survivors of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China. Zhang also mentioned “Angela's Ashes” by Irish-American writer Frank McCourt as an example of a good novel that shows instead of tells. In the story, children in an Irish village cheer after...
Staten Island Live, February 4, 2012
...The 2010 best-seller was written in 1980, DeStefano reveals, when he was a student of ?Angela?s Ashes? writer Frank McCourt at Manhattan?s Stuyvesant High School. ?All of us are really small and weak, if we really are honest with ourselves,? DeStefano...
Gainesville Sun, January 29, 2012
...Schuster Books for Young Readers and will be illustrated by Raul Colon, who has worked on stories by Frank McCourt and Libba Moore Gray. According to Simon & Schuster, "Readers will follow Natalie's experience as she learns to cope with missing her...