Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt dies.Summary: Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt (born August 19, 1930) is an Irish-American teacher and author. , the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes, has died aged 78, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times has reported. Frank McCourt, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes, has died aged 78, The New York Times has reported. The newspaper said the cause of death was metastatic Metastatic The term used to describe a secondary cancer, or one that has spread from one area of the body to another. Mentioned in: Coagulation Disorders metastatic pertaining to or of the nature of a metastasis. melanoma, quoting an executive of Scribner, Mr McCourt's publisher. The Irish-American author started out as a school teacher and came to writing late in life. He won acclaim for his poignant, extraordinarily bleak portrait of a childhood in the slums of the Irish city Limerick. Angela's Ashes brought McCourt a 1997 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. , the National Book Critics Circle Award and other honours. Millions of copies of the book were sold worldwide and it was adapted into a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle. Mr McCourt turned to his later life in the US for subsequent books, 'Tis and Teacher Man. McCourt was the eldest of seven children born to Irish immigrant parents in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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