Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt (1930-2009) taught high school and college English for three decades in New York and, occasionally, Dublin. Mr. McCourt’s memoir, Angela’s Ashes, published in September of 1996 by Scribn... Read more
Frank McCourt (1930-2009) taught high school and college English for three decades in New York and, occasionally, Dublin. Mr. McCourt’s memoir, Angela’s Ashes, published in September of 1996 by Scribner, was honored with The Pulitzer Prize for literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Book Review’s Non-Fiction prize, the Abbey Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His second book, ‘Tis, another bestseller, was released in the fall of 1999. A major motion picture based on Angela’s Ashes starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlisle premiered late the same year.