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 ...

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 ...

ROXBURY -- He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who split his time between New York City and Litchfield County, but ask Frank McCourt to appear at an event, ranging from a library discussion ...

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.

McCourt, 78, had been gravely ill with meningitis for the past two weeks, having developed the disease after receiving treatment for skin cancer, ... Frank McCourt dies, author of Angela’s Ashes ...

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 ...

NEW YORK – Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe ...

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 ...