"What the memoir requires is a distinctive voice, and Frank was a master of his voice," said Mary Karr, a friend of McCourt and author of the best-selling memoir "The Liar's Club." McCourt ...

“What the memoir requires is a distinctive voice, and Frank was a master of his voice,” said Mary Karr, a friend of McCourt and author of the best-selling memoir “The Liar’s Club.

Frank McCourt was a reporter's dream ... In the summer of 1997, I followed him on a book tour of Ireland. It was a hectic week, with stops in Galway, Sligo, Dublin, Cork, and every small town ...

Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1996 memoir “Angela’s Ashes,” is on his deathbed, his brother Malachy McCourt said Thursday. Frank McCourt, 78, contracted meningitis ...

ROXBURY -- He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who split his time between New York City and Litchfield County, but ask Frank McCourt to appear at an event, ranging from a library discussion ...

He was 78. Frank McCourt obituary: The obituary of author Frank McCourt in Monday’s Section A said surviving family members included his wife, Ellen; his brother, Malachy; and his daughter ...

Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher ... It also won the Pulitzer for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was turned into a movie in 1999.

(CNN) -- Author Frank McCourt, whose tragic childhood became creative grist for his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, according to the Web site of his publisher ...

NEW YORK – Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe ...

Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher ... McCourt’s long-suffering mother — the Angela of the book’s title — sought help from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and ...

Sad news — Frank McCourt, whose gripping memoir ... the New York Times reported. McCourt wrote numerous books, but was most famous for the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angela’s Ashes,” which ...