Frank mccourt

LONDON - Irish-American author Frank McCourt, best known for his moving memoir 'Angela's Ashes,' died of cancer in a New York hospice on Sunday afternoon.

NEW YORK - Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe" about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.