Goldie
07-20-2009, 06:34 AM
I don't know how many of you are familiar with Frank McCourt. But I absolutely love him. He was the author of Angela's Ashes (http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/english/angela.html), the story of his life growing up in Ireland. It was made into a movie. I was saddened to hear he had passed away yesterday.
NEW YORK -- After a childhood of almost impossible suffering, Frank McCourt came to embody so many improbable dreams. He was a survivor of poverty who became rich, the child of immigrants who made good. He was the retiree who stepped into a magical second life. He was the winning ticket for every ordinary person who has imagined that he or she could turn their lives into a book. "What the memoir requires is a distinctive voice, and Frank was a master of his voice," said Mary Karr, a friend of McCourt and author of the best-selling memoir "The Liar's Club." McCourt, the beloved former school teacher and author of "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer. He was 78, gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and the cause of his death, said his publisher, Scribner.
You can find the rest of the story here.. (http://www.wlwt.com/entertainment/20109953/detail.html)
NEW YORK -- After a childhood of almost impossible suffering, Frank McCourt came to embody so many improbable dreams. He was a survivor of poverty who became rich, the child of immigrants who made good. He was the retiree who stepped into a magical second life. He was the winning ticket for every ordinary person who has imagined that he or she could turn their lives into a book. "What the memoir requires is a distinctive voice, and Frank was a master of his voice," said Mary Karr, a friend of McCourt and author of the best-selling memoir "The Liar's Club." McCourt, the beloved former school teacher and author of "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer. He was 78, gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and the cause of his death, said his publisher, Scribner.
You can find the rest of the story here.. (http://www.wlwt.com/entertainment/20109953/detail.html)