Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes
First edition cover
AuthorFrank McCourt
LanguageEnglish
Genreautobiography, misery memoir
PublisherScribner
Publication date
5 September 1996
Publication placeIreland
Pages368
Awards1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography)
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
1997 Boeke Prize
ISBN0-684-87435-0
OCLC34284265
929/.2/0899162073 20
LC ClassE184.I6 M117 1996
Followed by'Tis 

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. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism.

The book was published in 1996 and won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The sequel 'Tis was published in 1999, followed by Teacher Man in 2005.