Frank McCourt called Angela s Ashes, his tale of growing up in grinding poverty in a slum in Limerick, Ireland, his epic of woe. The book came out in 1996, when McCourt was 66.

Irish teacher and author Frank McCourt's life embodied improbable dreams — and his account of it, "Angela's Ashes," sold millions.

Frank McCourt was a reporter's dream. Sure, he was a great writer. With the Pulitzer prize-winning Angela's Ashes, his wrenching account of a "miserable Irish childhood" in the slums of Limerick ...

NEW YORK -- After a childhood of almost impossible suffering, Frank McCourt came to embody so many improbable dreams. APIn this 2007 photo, author Frank McCourt arrives at "The Kite Runner" post ...

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, Simon ...

Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer ...

Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer ...