Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt (1930–2009) was an Irish-American teacher and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), which recounts his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrant parents, he returned to Ireland as a child, later emigrated back to the U.S. at 19, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and taught high school English in New York City for over 30 years before publishing his memoirs in his sixties. His subsequent books, ’Tis (1999) and Teacher Man (2005), continued his autobiographical saga and became bestsellers.[1][2][3]