Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, whose memoir Angela's Ashes (1998) chronicled his miserable Irish Catholic childhood in Limerick, Ireland, succumbed to meningitis (a complication from a recent bout with melanoma) this afternoon in New York. He is survived by his third wife, Ellen, his daughter Maggie, his three brothers: Malachy, Alphie, and Michael, and a world of readers, former students, and great admirers.
His family will be in our thoughts and prayers.
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