(CNN) -- Author Frank McCourt, whose tragic childhood became creative grist for his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, according to the Web site of his publisher ...

Saving Ellen looks at the experience of growing up in a large Irish American family in the 1960s, with a sick child, and a ...

The 30-minute short is based on Frank McCourt's 1996 Pulitzer-prize winning novel Angela's Ashes: A Memoir following McCourt and his family's early and often arduous life in Brooklyn, New York and ...

Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty ...

Frank McCourt, the author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, is a retired English teacher. He lives in New York City. Q: What do you see as some of the major obstacles to improving public schools in our ...

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes and 'Tis), The Irish… and How They Got That Way tells the story of the Irish experience on both sides of the pond.