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Angela's Ashes

January 15, 2019

I think I read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt initially when the book was first published. In high school at the time, my mother and I shared books. I was introduced to all of her favorite authors that way and most of these authors I still read now. One author who was new to both of us at the time was New York school teacher Frank McCourt who published a memoir of his life growing up in Brooklyn and Limerick, Ireland. As with most books from that era, I had vague recollections because I spent the next twenty years finishing high school and college and raising a family. Books I read in high school were not at the forefront of my mind. Since my youngest daughter transitioned to a full school day three years ago, I have gone back and read all of those forgotten to me books from high school through adult eyes. The experience has been for the most part positive with only a few books that stand out as disliking. With my ongoing lifetime Pulitzer challenge focusing on nonfiction winners this year, I decided to finally turn my attention back to Ange

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Frank McCourt

Irish-American writer

For other people named Frank McCourt, see Frank McCourt (disambiguation).

Frank McCourt
McCourt in 2006
Born	Francis McCourt (1930-08-19)August 19, 1930 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 19, 2009(2009-07-19) (aged 78) New York City, U.S.
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Notable work	Angela's Ashes (1996) 'Tis (1999) Teacher Man (2005)
Spouses	Alberta Small (m. ; div. 1979) Cheryl Floyd (m. ; div. 1989) Ellen Frey (m. )
Parent(s)	Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr Angela Sheehan
Relatives	Brothers Malachy McCourt Michael McCourt Alphie McCourt
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997

Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of hi

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Frank McCourt

You’ve certainly addressed this question in your first book, but to begin with, what was your childhood like?

Frank McCourt: It was rich in the sense that, even though we were poor, at the lowest level, even below the lowest economic level, we were always excited. It was rich in the sense that we had a lot to look up to, to look forward to, a lot to aspire to, a lot to dream about. But in economic circumstances it was desperate. It was Calcutta with rain. At least they’re warm in Calcutta. But it was desperate because of certain things, ingredients like my father being an alcoholic, my mother having too many babies in too short a time, no work available in Ireland, and even when my father did get a job he drank the wages. Then there was the harsh kind of schooling we had with school masters who ruled with a stick and then because of the overwhelming presence of the church, which imbued us with fear all the time. So it was fear, dampness, poverty, alcoholism, fear of the church, fear of the school masters, fear in general.

But at the same time when we