Article: Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is dead at 78; Frank McCourt, 'Angela's Ashes' author

WILLIAM GRIMES
International Herald Tribune
07-21-2009
Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is dead at 78; Frank McCourt, 'Angela's Ashes' author
Byline: WILLIAM GRIMES
Type: News

The former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, ''Angela's Ashes,'' died in New York on Sunday.

Frank McCourt, a former New York schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular memoir, "Angela's Ashes," which won the Pulitzer Prize, died Sunday in New York. He was 78 and lived in New York and in Roxbury, Connecticut.
The cause was metastatic ...

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