Frank McCourt… the Irish-American storyteller who parlayed the miseries of a Limerick upbringing into an extraordinary late life literary blooming… died of cancer Sunday in New York
McCourt 78… had spent the past 13 years buoyantly touring the globe on reading tours and writing two sequels to his 1996 best-seller… “Angela’s Ashes” which sold more than 5 million copies and was translated into more than 20 languages.
By: longshot - 20th July 2009 at 13:28
And there is an aviation link :)…he grew up in Limerick near Shannon and relates being dropped off at Shannon by MATS flights when he was in the US Army in Germany
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July 20, 2009 at 2:52 am