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	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)

	"Tis," By Frank Mccourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931.
		Frank and his brothers grew up in an impoverished section of Limerick, raised by their mother with little help from their alcoholic father.
		That part of Frank McCourt's life is well documented in "Angela's Ashes." As one critic put it: Frank McCourt "has succeeded in turning bleak into literature that sings." His new book is available in both a print and an audio edition, voiced by the author.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/tis.html (995 words)

	Frank McCourt - Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
		Frank McCourt taught in the New York public schools for twenty-seven years and always encouraged his students to know their own histories and appreciate the power of their stories.
		Frank endured poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lived to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
		McCourt returned to New York at age 19, where he worked as a high school teacher for most of the next 45 years.
	www.speakersla.com /noor/mccourt.htm (282 words)

	Biography: Frank McCourt (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.cob-web.org:8888 /interviews/960913/biography.html (194 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Books \| McCourt blossoms in blackboard jungle
		Author Frank McCourt learned as much from his students as they did from him.
		McCourt is in town to promote his third best-selling memoir, Teacher Man (Scribner, $36), a frank and often touching account of his 30 years as a high-school English teacher in the New York public-school system.
		McCourt ended up spending close to half his career in some of New Yorkâs most challenging schools before his growing reputation as a gifted, if somewhat unorthodox, teacher landed him a job teaching creative writing at Manhattanâs prestigious Stuyvesant high.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=15965 (1197 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tis : A Memoir: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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 (1464 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 'Tis: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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 (1360 words)

	Distinguished American Speaker Series - Frank McCourt
		McCourt's charm and wit captivated his audience of writers and academics with stories from his childhood in Ireland and his later life as a high school teacher in New York City.
		McCourt encouraged Jewish and Arab high school students to consider the uniqueness of their day-to-day personal experiences, stating that each and every one was a "potential protagonist of your own story, a star of your own film script."
		He also spoke of loss and pain and urged the students to look with fresh eyes at their own lives and to turn their often harsh realities into artistic expression.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/speakers/mccourt.html (144 words)

	Author Frank McCourt kicks off Weston Reads Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		McCourt’s 27-year career as a New York City public high school teacher and how it helped him craft his creative voice as an author.
		McCourt’s reading and appearance are $20 for adults, $10 for students/seniors/teachers, and $50 for a limited number of VIP meet-and-greet tickets for admittance to a special reception for Mr.
		Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in New York and raised in Limerick, Ireland.
	www.acorn-online.com /news/exec/view.cgi/21/5608/printer (792 words)

	Forum: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	A New Adventure : Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt
		Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, has a new book titled Teacher Man.
		Frank McCourt was a teacher in New York City for thirty years before he wrote his first book.
		McCourt relates that giving a 250 word essay to 175 students means that the teacher has to read over 43,000 words to correct one set of papers.
	visitmyclass.com /blogs/wenzloff/archive/2005/12/24/31218.aspx (310 words)

	Frank McCourt -- All Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Frank McCourt, who was born in Brooklyn but grew up in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, touchingly conveys the constant pains and occasional soaring joys of an impoverished childhood.
		Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity.
		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.non.com /books/McCourt_Frank_cc.html (1660 words)

	Frank McCourt Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	My lunch with Frank
		She showed me the official invitation, which listed Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes" and "Tis", as the guest speaker.
		McCourt's favorite tactics was to just ask someone a bunch of questions about his or her everyday life - what they had for dinner, what movies they'd seen, etc. Sometimes he'd have a student ask him questions, and sometimes, he'd have one student ask another questions.
		Early in his speech, he mentioned me by name, saying I was a former student and he was happy to see that I'd gone on to be successful "whether it was because of having me as a teacher or in spite of it".
	home.houston.rr.com /tylerkuffner/chuck/frank.htm (1525 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Frank Mccourt
		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.
		After retiring from teaching, Frank and his brother, Malachy, performed their two-man show, A Couple of Blaguards, a musical review about their Irish Youth.
		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.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-mccourt-frank.asp (1837 words)

	Frank McCourt Interview -- Academy of Achievement
		Frank McCourt: It was rich in the sense that...
		Frank McCourt: I think the first book that I ever read was Tom Brown's School Days, which my mother bought for me at Woolworth's in Limerick for sixpence.
		Frank McCourt: They didn't have the human touch that American teachers have, I think, but they did other things and they ruled in a way.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/mcc1int-1 (1247 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)

	Listen to Writer Frank McCourt
		Reader's Digest spoke with Frank McCourt, author of the new bestseller Teacher Man, which recounts his colorful experiences as a teacher for 30 years in New York City's public high schools.
		Teacher Man is McCourt's third literary work, after Angela's Ashes, published in 1996, the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, and 'Tis, the 1999 account of his early years in New York.
		Listen as Reader's Digest senior staff editor Maureen Mackey talks with McCourt about his life, his years of struggle as a teacher, his ultimate success, and his plans for the next Frank McCourt book -- which he tells us he will have to write as fiction.
	www.rd.com /content/openContent.do?contentId=21801 (301 words)

	Amazon.com: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Listen to an audio clip of bestselling and award-winning author Frank McCourt reading from his memoir Teacher Man about "second acts." Upon publication of Angela's Ashes, he became an internationally known author--he was 66 at the time.
		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.
		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-Memoir-Frank-McCourt/dp/068484267X (2318 words)

	Mount Saint Vincent to Host Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Frank McCourt
		Teacher Man is McCourt’s third book and recounts his 30 years as a teacher in New York City public schools.
		Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins writes “moving out of the poor Irish lanes of his childhood and now into the high school classrooms of New York City, Frank McCourt exchanges one garden of suffering for another, but always with a comic eye, a sympathetic heart, and the perfect timing of a master story-teller.
		Frank McCourt is the international best-selling author of Angela’s Ashes, which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and ‘Tis, published in 1999.
	www.mountsaintvincent.edu /1057.htm (298 words)

	Bio of Frank McCourt
		Renowned Irish-American author Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents.
		Unable to find work during the Depression, the McCourts returned to Ireland when McCourt was barely four, where they sunk deeper into the poverty McCourt describes so movingly in his memoir, "Angela's Ashes."
		McCourt won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice for best book.
	www.patricktv.tv /mccourt.jsp (267 words)

	'Tis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventually, Frank's relationship with his wife turns south, and they stay together as long as they do only because of their daughter, Margaret Ann (named after Frank’s sister who died in infancy, and his grandmother, which is described in Angela's Ashes).
		Frank's mother, Angela McCourt, is in increasingly bad health due to emphysema and dies in New York around the same time as Frank's father, Malachy McCourt Sr., dies in Ireland.
		Frank goes to Ireland to bury his father and scatter his mother's ashes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/'Tis (458 words)

	Amazon.com: 'Tis : A Memoir: Books: Frank McCourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Frank McCourt is a great writer who I wish had come to us sooner.
		Coming of age, Frank has arrived in New York City where life is hard but there is always the light at the end of the tunnel, and from his success it looks like he reached it.
	www.amazon.com /tis-Memoir-Frank-McCourt/dp/0684848783 (2091 words)

	Frank McCourt books reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Frank's observations/experiences about America/Education in the 50's, 60's, and into the 70's seem very fresh through his Irish eyes (2 holes in the snow they may be).
		Frank McCourt writes about his experiences as a High School teacher over the space of 30 years as well as one very humbling year teaching at a Community College.
		Frank McCourt 10/13/2006 7:26:39 PM Talk about the novels, new and used books that the author has written!
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_367.asp (291 words)

	NPR : McCourt Goes Back to School in 'Teacher Man'
		Frank McCourt, photographed in New York in October 2005.
		All Things Considered, January 14, 2006 · Long before he was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Frank McCourt was a teacher in the New York City schools.
		McCourt tells Jacki Lyden about life in the classroom.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5151767 (1910 words)

	Frank McCourt Biography - Soldier Creek Associates
		After waiting nearly forty years to tell his story, Frank McCourt, author of Angelaâs Ashes, is a literary phenomenon.
		He is funny, moving, uplifting and, in listening to him speak, we are all struck by the tremendous capacity of the human spirit.
		Frank lives in Connecticut with his wife, Ellen.
	www.soldiercreek.com /mccourt.cfm (348 words)

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