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.

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 ...

McCourt also wrote " 'Tis: A Memoir," a 1999 sequel to "Angela's Ashes" covering his life in America, and "Teacher Man," a 2005 memoir about his years as a schoolteacher.

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." McCourt also wrote ...

Frank McCourt, the former New York City public school teacher from Ireland who gained fame for the autobiographical "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, July 19, of cancer at a Manhattan hospice. He was 78.

Malachy McCourt, who returned to New York at age 20, would later write his own memoirs including A Monk Swimming (1998), an account of his life in Limerick that picks up where Angela’s Ashes ...

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, The New York Times reported ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...