Malachy McCourt, an Irish American author who also appeared on television as the bartender in “Ryan’s Hope,” died in Manhattan on March 11. He was 92. The New York Times received ...

McCourt was a retired schoolteacher in his 60s when his first book, Angela's Ashes, became a huge best-seller. It won the Pulitzer Prize.

After “Angela’s Ashes,” McCourt continued his story, to strong but diminished sales and reviews, in “‘Tis,” which told of his return to New York in the 1940s, and in “Teacher Man ...

NEW YORK, July 19 (Reuters) - Frank McCourt, the Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" that chronicled his impoverished upbringing, died on Sunday ...

Malachy McCourt, American-Irish actor, writer, one-time pub owner, politician, younger brother of author Frank Mc Court (Angela’s Ashes), now the last survivor of his seven offspring, is still ...

Irish actor and global gadfly Malachy McCourt, the last surviving sibling of a family chronicled by his brother’s memoir about poverty and pain, died Monday in Manhattan at 92.

Until his mid-60s, McCourt was essentially a New York character -- the kind who might turn up in a New York novel -- teaching by day and at night singing songs and telling stories with his younger ...

Angela and the Baby Jesus Frank McCourt, . Illus. by Raúl Colón. . ARRAY (0x26b4bc8), $14.95 (26pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-7470-5 ...

Rarely, McCourt risks inviting a laugh at Angela's expense (Angela continues, “You're not to be flying around like an angel”), but otherwise he brings consummate skill to his layering of ...

He was 78. The author of Angela's Ashes and former high school English teacher died Sunday at a Manhattan hospice after contracting meningitis a few weeks ago, said his brother Malachy McCourt.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for autobiography at age 67 for his first book, ‘Angela’s Ashes.’ Frank McCourt, a longtime English teacher, struck a chord with readers with his devastating memoir ...