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	Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Frank McCourt taught in the New York City public schools for twenty-seven years, the last seventeen of which were spent at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.
		Frank McCourt was the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Biography/Autobiography, The Boston Book Review's Non-Fiction prize, the ABBY Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
		McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out.
	www.ou.edu /special/owp/wwww/mccourt/mccourt.html (545 words)

	Frank McCourt
		Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's moving memoir of growing up in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.
		Frank admits that two of the best things to have happened to him were getting into the US army, which "forced him into the American mainstream", and teaching, which "reinforced it."
		I met Frank McCourt along with other writers at Sun Valley, Idaho, where he spoke of the release of the much anticipated film version of Angela's Ashes on December 17th of this year.
	www.celticcafe.com /archive/celticbooks/mccourt/mccourt.htm (330 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ANGELA'S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.
		Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
		Discuss the originality and immediacy of Frank McCourt's voice and the style he employs -- i.e., his sparing use of commas, the absence of quotation marks.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/angelas_ashes.asp (574 words)

	McCourt, Frank: Angela's Ashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Frank leaves school to earn money for the family (his father had joined the war-time wave of work in England, but continued to drink his earnings away), and to save for a return to America.
		Another factor in McCourt's favor is the love with which he was reared by both parents.
		Frank's father was an alcoholic but he was not an abuser--he loved his children and they knew it.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/mccourt988-des-.html (565 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Frank McCourt
		Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and one of the master storytellers of American literature, is the author of the new memoir, Teacher Man (2006), an account of his thirty-year teaching career with the New York City public school system.
		Frank McCourt was a visiting writer at the New York State Writers Institute on November 20, 1996 and also gave the Keynote Address for the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference in Albany on April 15, 1999.
		Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchullan, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel of the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/mccourt.html (1248 words)

	Frank McCourt Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents.
		Frank McCourt himself nearly died of typhoid fever when he was ten.
		McCourt spent the war stationed in Germany and on his return to civilian life was able to pursue a college education on the G.I. Bill.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/mcc1bio-1 (691 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Frank McCourt
		Bio: Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents; he grew up in Limerick, Ireland; he returned to America in 1949.
		Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat.
		Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize--winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/FrankMcCourteBooks.htm (371 words)

	Frank McCourt Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Frank McCourt was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and at the age of nineteen, returned to America.
		The tales of his childhood that he had told many times to his classes at school and in the bars of New York soon took shape as the highly acclaimed memoir which is Angela's Ashes.
		Frank McCourt lives with his wife, Ellen, in New York City and Connecticut.
	www.zaney5.freeserve.co.uk /bio.html (235 words)

	Biography: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Penniless and destitute, the McCourts finnally make it to Limerick where Frank is introduced to a collection of relatives, some as miserly as it is possible to imagine; some, as generous.
		Frank's father, Malachy, rarely has a job and when he does, spends his wages in the pubs, leaving Frank's mother, Angela, to beg from churches and charity organizations.
		Despite the tragedy of his drinking, Frank's dad is as charming as a "shiftless l aquacious alcoholic" could be, and he shares a special bond with Frank, revealed through moments of heartrending tenderness.
	www.annonline.com /interviews/960913/biography.html (194 words)

	Frank McCourt, 'Tis: A Memoir
		"'Tis" is the perfect last word of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning celebration of his devastating poverty and resilience as a child born in depression-era Brooklyn and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.
		Frank's befriending of Horace, a fl employee on the warehouse docks, earns both of them harassment from the white workers, but cements his belief in education.
		During one of his first university courses, Frank writes an essay about his childhood experience of acquiring a bed for the four brothers from a charity and bringing it home on a wobbly pram.
	www.rambles.net /mccourt_tis.html (571 words)

	Frank McCourt Message Board
		McCourt owes Irish society no apology for revealing a theological and societal callousness toward those living in poverty, nor do the poor choices of his parents deserve to be concealed.
		McCourt for his honesty about his sexual encounters and outrage that he chose not to hide the treatment his family received from the Catholic Church.
		Frank McCourt's life, e.g., sexual intercourse with a seriously ill andquot;girlandquot; and sexual intercourse with a married woman whose husband is on a hunting trip with friends requires a andquot;washing!andquot; Also, is this mediocre writing fair game to attack the Roman Catholic Church?
	www.allreaders.com /board.asp?BoardID=2527 (1001 words)

	Bookreporter.com - 'TIS by Frank McCourt
		When he closed his red, infected eyes, the flea-ticked mattress he shared with his two brothers became a sailing ship and he was spirited off to a place where he believed no one wanted for a meal or the warm security of hearth and home.
		McCourt portrays his childhood with such charm and humor that he transformed the tragic circumstances of his family's poverty into literary gold.
		The pages of 'TIS are enriched by the people McCourt meets, from a kindly fl man who offers McCourt friendship and inspiration, to his hilarious drinking buddies, to the neighbors and friends who inhabit his small circle of life.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0684848783.asp (567 words)

	Online NewsHour: Angela's Ashes - April 7, 1997
		FRANK McCOURT: We had two up, two down, the old houses, what they called artisans dwellings built by Queen Victoria in the old days.
		FRANK McCOURT: Well, when I arrived in America at 19, I was a time bomb, and I continued like that for a long time.
		FRANK McCOURT: I always wanted to get out, and since I knew I was born in Brooklyn and my mother always said, we'll all go back to America some day.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/april97/mccourt_4-7.html (1446 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tis : A Memoir: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York.
		The appeal of McCourt as a reader of his own memoirs (Angela's Ashes flourished commercially on audio, in both abridged and unabridged formats) lies in his ability to express a sustained sense of wonder at the world around him.
		Nevertheless, McCourt can still tell stories, and as he relates the events of his wedding or first day in school, the reader is there with him in the scene as it unfolds.
	www.amazon.ca /Tis-Memoir-Frank-McCourt/dp/0684865742 (1463 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 'Tis: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and dark humour that distinguished his first memoir; race prejudice, casual cruelty and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out.
		Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship.
		Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Award amongst others, and rapidly became a word-of-mouth bestseller topping all charts worldwide for over two years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tis-Frank-McCourt/dp/0006551815 (1371 words)

	Powell's Books - Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank Mccourt
		McCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper.
		McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice.
		For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption — and literary fame — is an exhilarating adventure.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0743243773 (840 words)

	Amazon.ca: Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCourt is the eldest of eight children born to Angela Sheehan and Malachy McCourt in the 1920s.
		The McCourts began their family in poverty in Brooklyn, yet when Angela slipped into depression after the death of her only daughter (four of eight children survived), the family reversed the tide of emigration and returned to Ireland, living on public assistance in Limerick.
		McCourt's story is laced with the pain of extreme poverty, aggravated by an alcoholic father who abandoned the family during World War II.
	www.amazon.ca /Angelas-Ashes-Memoir-Frank-McCourt/dp/068484267X (1224 words)

	McCourt,Frank Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer.
		Featuring essays from such Irish American luminaries as Frank McCourt, Pete Hamill, Peggy Noonan, Peter Quinn, James Carroll, Thomas Mallon, and others, this audiobook celebrates the rich, comprehensive history of the Irish identity in America, told through segments whose themes are taken from the most important institutions of Irish life--the...
		Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by listeners everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/McCourt,Frank (923 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - Frank McCourt's 'Tis: A Memoir
		Frank McCourt sat at the top of the bestseller list for the better part of two years.
		When McCourt describes how disgruntled he is cleaning up after rich college students at the Biltmore Hotel and expands on his yearning for a college education, one realizes how easy it is to take life for granted.
		McCourt should also be praised for knowing when to pull back on the emotional strings.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/1999-10-01/books_vsbr6.html (584 words)

	Cybamuse Independent Book Reviews - Biographies: Frank McCourt
		McCourt's father loves the bottle so much that his family take second place whenever he earns any money, leaving his mother to try and scrape together anything to feed her children.
		Initially, McCourt is given a foot in the door by a Priest who befriended him on the ship across the Atlantic, but McCourt isn't really given a chance until the Korean War breaks out and he is drafted into the army.
		I apologise, McCourt's story didn't raise much sympathy in me - it is has been a long, hard and tragic road for him to finally achieve his dreams, and I am glad he did, but he just didn't endear himself to me in the way he narrates that climb...
	www.cybamuse.com /books/biographies/mccourt.htm (807 words)

	McCourt Frank - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McCourt, Frank (quotations): Ireland: Men have been dying for Ireland since the…
		Men have been dying for Ireland since the beginning of time and look at the state of the country.
		The memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996) by Frank McCourt, an American writer of Irish descent, described—with irony, but little bitterness—a childhood of...
	au.encarta.msn.com /McCourt_Frank.html (110 words)

	Forum: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On behalf of Deborah Leff, the director of the library, and John Shattuck, the CEO of the Library Foundation, it is a pleasure to welcome you to tonight’s forum with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt.
		Frank McCourt, who moved to Ireland at age four with his parents and brothers, paints a different portrait.
		McCourt wrote some time ago that has stayed with me forever is when he talked about when you were a child and were so poor.
	www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/forum_mccourt.html (10149 words)

	Frank McCourt -- Available Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.
		Imbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion -- and movingly read in his own voice -- Angela's Ashes is a glorious audiobook that bears all the marks of a classic.
		Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty.
	www.non.com /books/McCourt_Frank_ca.html (561 words)

	Online NewsHour -- A Conversation with Frank McCourt -- March 17, 1999
		Frank McCourt discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Angela's Ashes.
		McCourt discusses the impact of Angela's Ashes on his life and his first impressions of America.
		Part 4: Frank McCourt reads an excerpt from his upcoming work 'Tis: A Memoir.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/mccourt_index.html (136 words)

	Online NewsHour: Frank McCourt -- March 17, 1999
		McCOURT: Standing in front of the board, writing something about dangling participles or, or crazy gerunds, and then I'd have a heart attack, and, and I'd be carried out, feet first, like a warrior--a pedagogical warrior.
		McCOURT: Well, that's my, my nephew, Malachy's son, Connor, he did that, the "McCourt's of Limerick" and that was about our growing up in Limerick, and then he didn't want to leave it.
		McCOURT: It is made of gold, because --it--but it took a long time, and what has happened to me is, is beyond the wildest imagination of any screenwriter, any novelist, be certainly beyond my imagination --because I never expected this.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/mccourt_3-17.html (1681 words)

	Amazon.com: Angela's Ashes: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Frank McCourt piles on so many examples of the overwhelming poverty he experienced during his childhood that I almost put down the book in despair after reading just forty pages.
		While the tone of the memoir is sometimes downbeat and sullen, the progress of these two young pilgrims toward a life of greater promise is one that gains ballast as we progress toward the end.
		McCourt puts himself right back into the mind of his younger self, and seems to be talking and thinking just as he would from ages 4 through a young man. He speaks of his family.
	www.amazon.com /Angelas-Ashes-Frank-McCourt/dp/0684874350 (2195 words)

	NEA: March 2006 NEA Today - Teacher Man
		Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis, recollects his 27 years as a New York City public school teacher in a new memoir called Teacher Man. McCourt, a lifetime union member, talks with NEA Today writer Mary Ellen Flannery about the state of teaching today.
		McCourt: The performer thing is OK in the beginning, to put on expressions of shock and so on.
		McCourt: As I said at the end of Teacher Man, “Find what you love and do it.” I had a student teacher who was expert in the esoteric—strange religions, tea-leaf readings, and so on.
	www.nea.org /neatoday/0603/mccourt.html (990 words)

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