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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 20 > ‘Angela’s Ashes’ author dies

‘Angela’s Ashes’ author dies

Frank McCourt won a Pulitzer for memoir of his grim childhood

By Dennis McLellan / The Bulletin
July 20, 2009

Frank McCourt, the retired New York schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir “Angela’s Ashes,” died Sunday of cancer. He was....

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