Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.?? He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone. In addition to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, ??Angela??s Ashes?? won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. McCourt??s first book was about gro... Show more »
Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.?? He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone. In addition to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, ??Angela??s Ashes?? won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. McCourt??s first book was about growing up poor in Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was born in New York in 1931, his family returned to Ireland in 1934. McCourt quit school as a young teenager to work odd jobs to help support his mother and three surviving brothers. At the age of 19, he returned to the United States and earned his undergraduate degree from New York University, then his Master??s degree from Brooklyn College in 1958. Then he began his teaching career. The sequel to ??Angela??s Ashes?? was followed by ??Tis: A Memoir?? in September 1999 and ??Teacher Man?? in 2005. « Show less
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