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20/07/2009
Ashes Author McCourt Dies
Best-selling novelist Frank McCourt has lost his battle with cancer.
The 78-year-old author, best known for writing Angela's Ashes, died in New York while receiving hospice care.
McCourt, a prominent Irish-American, was suffering from meningitis and had been undergoing treatment for the deadly skin cancer, melanoma.
Semi-autobiographical, Angela's Ashes sold millions of copies world-wide, later receiving the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize.
McCourt's family travelled from New York to Ireland during the Great Depression.
They lived in poverty in Limerick, which was a strong theme in Angela's Ashes. In 1999 the book was made into a feature film.
Prior to the book's 1996 publication, McCourt had worked as a teacher in New York for 30 years.
(PR/BMcC)
The 78-year-old author, best known for writing Angela's Ashes, died in New York while receiving hospice care.
McCourt, a prominent Irish-American, was suffering from meningitis and had been undergoing treatment for the deadly skin cancer, melanoma.
Semi-autobiographical, Angela's Ashes sold millions of copies world-wide, later receiving the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize.
McCourt's family travelled from New York to Ireland during the Great Depression.
They lived in poverty in Limerick, which was a strong theme in Angela's Ashes. In 1999 the book was made into a feature film.
Prior to the book's 1996 publication, McCourt had worked as a teacher in New York for 30 years.
(PR/BMcC)
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