‘Angela’s Ashes’ author Frank McCourt dies in NYC at 78
By APMonday, July 20, 2009
‘Angela’s Ashes’ author McCourt dies in NYC at 78
NEW YORK — Irish author Frank McCourt has died in New York City at age 78.
He was best known for the million-selling “Angela’s Ashes,” a memoir about his childhood. The memoir was published in 1996 and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Brother Malachy (MAL’-uh-kee) McCourt says Frank McCourt died Sunday afternoon at a Manhattan hospice.
Frank McCourt had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
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