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Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt was born in 1930 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. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York and Connecticut.

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Chapter 1 from Tis
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Prologue from Teacher Man
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Angela and the Baby Jesus has won an award
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Angela's Ashes
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Tis
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Author refused to settle for 'a one-act existence'
Kingston Whig-Standard, July 20, 2009
...Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author ofAngela's Ashes,the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'epic of woe' about his impoverished Irish childhood, died yesterday of cancer. McCourt, who...