Information about the author
Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents. He grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years, he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, Angela's Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006, he received the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.

Blurb
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish.".