frank mccourt, pulitzer prize-winning author

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Frank McCourt, author of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes," detailing a childhood of Irish squalor and eventual New York salvation, died Sunday. He had been gravely ill with meningitis after being treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. McCourt was 78.


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