Author Frank McCourt Dies

Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela’s Ashes, died in Manhattan on Sunday. He was 78. Angela's Ashes describes a childhood of horrid deprivation:"When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: The happy childhood is hardly worth your while." He wrote 2 additional memoirs: ’Tis (1999), which described his early immigrant years in New York, and Teacher Man (2005), a bitter sweet account of his challenges as a public-school teacher.