Pulitzer Prize-winner Frank McCourt, who captivated readers with his funny but heart-wrenching memoir of a hardscrabble childhood in Ireland, has died. He was 78. The author of Angela's Ashes and ...

The beloved animated film “Angela’s Christmas” hit stores for the first time ever on DVD this November exclusively at Walmart. The half-hour CG animated film is based on Frank McCourt’s only ...

Dec. 3, 2000 Life's moments fall into two categories for best-selling author Frank McCourt: those he spends writing and those he spends grousing. "To tell you the truth, " McCourt says over the ...

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, the Irish-American actor, raconteur and author best known to TV audiences for his long-running role as Kevin the bartender on ABC’s soap Ryan’s Hope, died today in Manhattan after ...

"Angela’s Ashes” by Frank McCourt is the March selection for IrishCentral’s Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of ...

NEW YORK (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, The New ...

NEW YORK — After a childhood of almost impossible suffering, Frank McCourt came to embody so many improbable dreams. He was a survivor of poverty who became rich, the child of immigrants who made good ...

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NEW YORK McCourt, who was 78, had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and the cause of his death, said his publisher, Scribner. He ...