Frank McCourt podcast from the archives

Frank McCourt, the former public school teacher turned beloved writer, died Sunday of cancer. McCourt, who was published by Fourth Estate, was most well known for his pulitzer prize winning memoir Angela’s Ashes, which chronicles the story of his impoverished Irish upbringing.

Frank was sixty-six when he finally completed his famous memoir of growing up in Limerick, which won the Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award before going on to sell more than four million copies worldwide.

Nearly 18 months ago, Frank sat down with our very own Mark Johnson to speak about his books and about his new efforts in fiction; about why it took fifty years for his writing ambitions to be realised in such dramatic fashion; and about what it’s really like for a first time writer to be catapulted straight into America’s literary elite…

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