Frank McCort Dies NSR
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Posted 2009-07-19 4:55 PM (#28745)


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Location: New Jersey		Subject: Frank McCort Dies NSR

Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela’s Ashes,” died Sunday. He was 78 and lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Conn.

The cause was metastatic melanoma, said Mr. McCourt’s brother, the writer Malachy McCourt.
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Sad to hear of his death....He was a gentle man who told a wonderful story.
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Posted 2009-07-19 5:49 PM (#28749 - in reply to #28745)


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Location: Wappingers Falls, NY		Subject: RE: Frank McCort Dies NSR

A truly wonderful man of great courage.  He and his brother, actor Malachi lived a life of pure hell and turned it around to become part of the best that is Irish.  He will be sorely missed. 

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, and may you be in Heaven 1/2 hr. before the Devil knows you're dead.  God Bless.
whalen
Posted 2009-07-19 5:50 PM (#28750 - in reply to #28745)


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Location: Citrus County FL		Subject: RE: Frank McCort Dies NSR

I really liked Frank McCort's writing -- and his brother Malachy's too!

I told a friend about ANGELA'S ASHES (very depressing memoir) and he picked it up as a book-on-tape for a long car trip.  After a while, he said, it was all he could do to keep from driving into overpass columns....