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

(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 ...

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 ...