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Frank McCourt

July 2009

  • Robert McCrum on books
    Demons that lurked behind a dry Irish wit

  • Books blog
    Linklog: A Pynchonesque encounter, Frank McCourt remembered, and more

  • Frank McCourt

    Frank McCourt – father of the misery memoir, child of the slums – dies at 78

  • Frank McCourt at his apartment in New York

    Frank McCourt

May 2009

  • Frank McCourt

    Frank McCourt treated for cancer

    Angela's Ashes author undergoing chemotherapy for melanoma and 'doing pretty well'

November 2007

  • Frank McCourt

    A heartwarming tale rises from the ashes

    Frank McCourt tells Stephanie Merritt why he has followed Irish misery with a fairy-tale ending

May 2007

  • In search of the new Frank McCourt

    Louise Millar

    Writers are turning to ghostwriting memoirs of 'ordinary' people, says Louise Millar.

December 2005

  • What curriculum?

    Frank McCourt's account of his time working in New York high schools, Teacher Man, sees him on top form, says Rebecca Seal.

May 2005

  • 'I can't think of anything else I would rather have done'

  • Supper with the Pope, canapes with Dali, lunch with Nureyev

April 2005

  • My work space

    Frank McCourt needed to rid himself of rigid teacher hours to become a writer. Like James Joyce, he wanted to write any time, anywhere. The author of Angela's Ashes talks to Sandra Deeble about his work spaces and tenure as writer in residence at London's Savoy hotel.

January 2000

  • Audio

    Frank McCourt is a serious fellow and he reads 'Tis seriously

  • From bleak house to great expectations

    Philip French: Some of the earlier parts of the story seem overly compressed, the latter parts are a trifle pat... The performances, however, are excellent, especially as we might expect from Parker, those of the children, with Joe Breen, Ciarán Owens and Michael Legge outstanding as Frankie from six to 19.

  • No: 1558 Frank McCourt

    Age: Top of the morning to you.

November 1999

  • 'Tis by Frank McCourt in 400 words

    Nineteen, with dead white skin and two scabby eyes like piss holes in the snow, I'm straight off the boat in the melting-pot that is New York. I work and work and work, get a degree, become a high-school teacher and go back to Limerick with Angela's ashes.

October 1999

  • The school teacher's tale

  • Raking the ashes

September 1999

  • Frank confessions

    Frank McCourt looks out over his land, a fugitive from a life sentence handed down for a crime he did not commit. The writer says he is tired of himself, bored telling the story of his life.

    He has been carrying Angela's Ashes, the weight of his pitiful childhood, for all his 69 years and now he wants to wander down different literary lanes. But that story has paid him back, late in life, with more than a certain sadness.

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