Frank McCourt

The Profile

Frank McCourt (1930–2009) was an Irish-American teacher and memoirist, best known for Angela's Ashes.

Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Angela's Ashes. He worked as a teacher in New York City and wrote about his experiences in Teacher Man.

One review on DeBaser covers Frank McCourt's Che paese, l'America (What a Country, America). The reviewer praises McCourt's energetic, sarcastic writing but finds the underlying material ordinary. Overall a readable, witty memoir with uneven narrative weight.