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NEW YORK — Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of “Angela’s Ashes,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “epic of ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Angela’s Ashes," Frank McCourt, is battling cancer, but his family is dismissing reports that he is gravely ill. The 78-year-old McCourt is being treated ...
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 ...