His brother Malachy McCourt, a former radio host, is also an actor and autobiographical writer. Together they created the stage play A Couple of Blaguards, a two-man show about their lives and experiences.
(19 August 1930 - 19 July 2009)
He used the G.I. Bill to enroll in New York University, from which he ultimately graduated. After receiving a Master's degree from Brooklyn College in 1967, he taught English at McKee High School and Stuyvesant High School in New York City (where he joined the American Federation of Teachers). He retired after thirty years.
He received the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for his memoir Angela's Ashes (1996), which details his impoverished childhood in Limerick. He also authored 'Tis (1999), which continues the narrative of his life, picking up from the end of the previous book and focusing on life as a new immigrant in America. Teacher Man (2005) detailed the challenges of being a young, uncertain teacher.
McCourt was a member of the National Arts Club and was a recipient of the Award of Excellence from The International Center in New York.
In 2002 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Western Ontario. That same year he was also awarded the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award.
Frank McCourt lived with his wife Ellen in New York City and Connecticut. He had a daughter, Maggie, with his first wife, a granddaughter, Chiara, and two grandsons, Frank and Jack.
It was announced in May 2009 that he had been treated for melanoma and that he was in remission, undergoing home chemotherapy.[3] On 19 July 2009, he died from the disease, with meningeal complications, at a hospice in Manhattan.[4]
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