Frank McCourt

摘要

For most of his life, Frank McCourt was a teacher. But it is as the author of the wildly successful memoir Angela's Ashes, which recounted his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, that he will be remembered.rnMcCourt, who died of meningitis July 19 at 78, was the first of seven children their mother Angela cared for indomitably. Hisrnalcoholic father abandoned the family, which became so poor that three siblings died of disease or malnutrition. "In reality, our life was worse than Frank wrote," said McCourt's brother Malachy. Frank once said that as a child he dreamed of being a prison inmate for the food andrnwarmth.