Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt ( born August 19, 1930 in New York City; † July 19, 2009 ) was an American writer of Irish descent.

Life

Frank McCourt was born as the eldest son of an Irish immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York. When he was four years old, his family returned to Ireland because his parents could not find work because of the Great Depression in New York. McCourt spent the rest of his childhood and youth in poverty in the predominantly Catholic Limerick. His father, Malachy was often unemployed and vertrank the dole. When Frank McCourt was ten years old, his father went to England to work in a factory. He did not send money, so Frank McCourt had to make with his mother Angela for younger siblings Malachy McCourt, Michael and Alphey.

In 1949, he had saved up the dream of his youth: A ticket back to New York. There he first worked at the Biltmore Hotel and then went to the army. As a corporal, he spent three years stationed in Bavaria. After his return, he studied in New York and worked part-time in warehouses and on the docks in order to earn his livelihood. After finishing his studies, he taught at various schools as an English teacher. Most recently, he spent 15 years at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in New York. There he taught especially creative writing. Frank McCourt was married twice, his daughter Margaret comes from his first marriage.

In retirement, Frank McCourt processed his difficult childhood and youth in the autobiographical novel Angela's Ashes (1996). The book was over 6 million copies, an international bestseller, and brought its author the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. The novel was made ​​into a film by Alan Parker 1999.

In an all around great country Frank McCourt recounts his experiences since returning to New York. In the third part of his memoirs, day and night, even in summer, Frank McCourt describes his working life as a teacher with some very problematic classes.

On July 19, 2009, he died in a hospice in Manhattan, New York, at a caused by skin cancer meningitis.

In Limerick there since July 2011 in Leamy 's School, the Frank once visited as a student, a Frank McCourt Museum, which was opened by his brother Malachy McCourt.

Works

Participation

  • 2001: Yeats is dead! ( Original Title: Yeats is Dead ), serial novel for Amnesty International with Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Hugo Hamilton and eleven other Irish authors, ed. by Joseph O'Connor, List, Munich, ISBN 3-548-68029-1.
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