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.
Read the full article in the NYT. 7/19/09: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20mccourt.html?hp