Frank McCourt near death

According to his brother, author/actor Malachy McCourt, the award-winning author Francis "Frank" McCourt is gravely ill, and not expected to live very long. McCourt is in a New York hospice with meningitis and, according to Malachy, "his faculties are shutting down." The meningitis is likely a complication from the melanoma for which he was treated earlier this year.

The author is best known for his novel Angela's Ashes (1996), a memoir of his impoverished Irish Catholic childhood, and won the Pulitzer Prize. The book was followed by 'Tis (1999), which picks up where Angela's Ashes left off, and follows McCourt's young adulthood upon his return to New York. The chronicle of McCourt's life was finished in his final memoir, Teacher Man (2005), describing his career in New York high schools and colleges.

Frank McCourt was born on August 19, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York.



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