Frank McCourt dies at 78; late-blooming author of 'Angela's Ashes'

Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer. He was 78.

By Dennis McLellan

July 20, 2009