Frank McCourt, author of best-seller Angela's Ashes, has died of cancer in a New York hospice.
The 78-year-old Irish-American writer was suffering from meningitis and had recently been treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Angela's Ashes, a memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland, sold millions of copies and won the Pulitzer Prize.
Before the book's 1996 publication, McCourt was a New York high school teacher for 30 years.
Quoted by the New York Times newspaper, Susan Moldow of McCourt's publisher Scribner said the cause of his death, on Sunday afternoon, was metastatic melanoma.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8158451.stm
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 July 2009 04:41 (fifteen years ago)
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― Eazy, Monday, 20 July 2009 06:26 (fifteen years ago)
:(
― tehresa, Monday, 20 July 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago)
has anyone here read Teacher Man? some say its his best.
― Michael B, Monday, 20 July 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago)
His brother is a bartender here in SF and I met Frank once, years ago. A truly lovely man - he will be missed.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago)
A good friend who went to Stuyvesant had him as an English teacher. Very sad to hear this although he'd been ill for ages.
― take a sad song and make it HARDCORE (suzy), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago)
"Money bores me. I couldn't tell you how much I have. I just fall asleep when I have to meet lawyers and talk about stock markets and trust funds," said McCourt.
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Monday, 20 July 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago)
aw he seems like a lovely man
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 20 July 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago)
I read his first book. I liked it. It had a fine Irish misery about it. RIP.
― Aimless, Monday, 20 July 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago)
Malachy's still here, just:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/nyregion/malachy-mccourt.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 March 2023 19:19 (two years ago)
Yes and yes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 March 2023 01:14 (two years ago)
xp Malachy and Shane going to hit the town.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 March 2023 01:15 (two years ago)