Author Frank McCourt
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.
McCourt was born in Brooklyn in 1930 he would later, much later, memorably describe the scene of his conception in his memoir but he grew up in Ireland....
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