Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt, Pulitzer-Winning Memoirist, Dies at 78

Frank McCourt, a teacher who in his sixties wrote a memoir of his desperately poor Irish childhood that became the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes, has died. He was 78. McCourt, whose novel was adapted into a 1999 film of the same name, died of metastatic melanoma, said his brother, actor and writer Malachy McCourt. Frank McCourt, who lived in New York City and Roxbury, Conn., died Sunday, The New York Times reported. See Frank McCourt talk about the importance of books Angela's Ashes won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 and sold more than ...