Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt
McCourt in 2006
Born
Francis McCourt

(1930-08-19)August 19, 1930
New York City, U.S.
DiedJuly 19, 2009(2009-07-19) (aged 78)
New York City, U.S.
Citizenship
  • Irish
  • American
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Memoirist
  • writer
  • teacher
Notable workAngela's Ashes: A Memoir
'Tis
Teacher Man
Spouses
  • Alberta Small
    (m. 1961; div. 1979)
  • Cheryl Floyd
    (m. 1984; div. 1989)
  • Ellen Frey
    (m. 1994)
Parent(s)Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr
Angela Sheehan
RelativesBrothers Malachy McCourt
Michael McCourt
Alphie McCourt
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997
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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 the misery and squalor of his childhood.[1]

  1. ^ Grossman, Lev (19 July 2009). "Frank McCourt, 'Angela's Ashes' Author, Dies". TIME. Retrieved 4 April 2013. For most of his life, until he was well into his 60s, Frank McCourt wasn't a writer; he was a teacher. But it is as a writer, the author of the wildly successful memoir Angela's Ashes, that he will be remembered. He died on July 19 in New York of meningitis. He was 78 years old.