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Famed Author Frank McCourt Dies at 78

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NEW YORK (July 20) – 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.
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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.