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Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. [1]
Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [1] [2] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [3] owner of the football club Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [3] He was the owner and chairman of the Los ...
Frank McCourt (born August 19, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died July 19, 2009, New York, New York) was an American author and teacher who was perhaps best known for the memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
Nov 21, 2022 · Frank McCourt is stepping down from CEO of McCourt Global to focus on Project Liberty, his decentralized social media initiative.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood. The book details his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland.
Jul 22, 2009 · Instead, I was in Manhattan, her favourite city, with late-blooming, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, who himself shed this mortal coil over the weekend.
Jul 19, 2009 · 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” about...
Jul 19, 2009 · Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and author. McCourt was born in Brooklyn; however, his family returned to their native Ireland in 1934. He received the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for his memoir Angela's Ashes (1996), which details his childhood as a poor Irish Catholic in Limerick.
Jul 19, 2009 · Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Angela’s Ashes” has died. The celebrated Irish author wa...
Frank McCourt is a memoir and biography author of Irish and American extraction best known for his “Frank McCourt Memoirs.” The author was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish immigrant father and Angel his mother from the south west Ireland slums of Limerick.
