Frank McCourt: "Angela's Ashes" author dies

Frank McCourt: "Angela's Ashes" author dies

Frank McCourt, the Irish American author, died of cancer in a New York hospice on July 19, 2009. He was 78. The author was suffering from meningitis and had recently been treated for melanoma.

Susan Moldow of McCourt's publisher Scribner said the cause of his death was metastatic melanoma.

McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York City on 19 August 1930 into a large Irish Catholic family. He travelled to Ireland during the Great Depression with his parents at an early age.

Frank McCourt was best known as the author of "Angela's Ashes". The book is a memoir by the author, which tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography. Before the book's publication, McCourt was a New York high school teacher for 30 years.

The memoir was made into a 1999 Hollywood film, starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle. It was released by Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios.

"'Tis" is the McCourt's second book. It was published in 1999.

"'Tis" is a memoir written by Frank McCourt, which begins where "Angela's Ashes" left off.