Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourtwas 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 his childhood...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 August 1953
CountryIreland
christmas memories kind
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
happy hard recalls
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
potatoes enough mashed-potatoes
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
teacher world
Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
book responsibility creating
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
book thinking titles
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
wife too-much ready
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
came drank funeral states three work
He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.