Author

Books by Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt (1930–2009) was born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrant parents and raised in Limerick, Ireland, after the family returned to Ireland during the Depression. He emigrated back to the United States at age nineteen and eventually became a high school English teacher in New York City, a career he held for thirty years. He did not begin writing seriously until retirement. Angela's Ashes, published in 1996 when he was sixty-six, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize. He published two sequel memoirs, 'Tis and Teacher Man.