R.I.P. Frank McCourt

pitu

The wonderful Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, died yesterday. I didn't know he was born in Brooklyn - Classon Ave.

Frank McCourt in 2005 in a classroom at Stuyvesant High School in New York, where he taught creative writing.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20mccourt.html

Frank McCourt, Whose Irish Childhood Illuminated His Prose, Is Dead at 78
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: July 20, 2009
Mr. McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher, turned his miserable Irish childhood into a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela’s Ashes.”

christina

I read the book a decade ago so sorry if I get the facts wrong, but wasn't he born in Ireland? And he came to New York in his late teens?

christina

Nevermind, he was indeed born here. Like I said, it's been a while since I read it..