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A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Book Reviewed by:This article relates to Teacher Man
Frank McCourt
taught in the New York City
public schools for twenty-seven
years, the last seventeen of
which were spent at Stuyvesant
High School in Manhattan. After
retiring from teaching, Frank
and his brother, Malachy,
performed their two-man show,
A Couple of Blaguards, a
musical review about their Irish
Youth. In September 1996,
Scribner published Frank's
childhood memoir, Angela's
Ashes, which spent 117 weeks
on the New York Times bestseller
list. After more than sixty-five
printings, there are over
2.3 million copies in print in
North America alone.
McCourt has won
the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for
Biography, the National Book
Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in
Biography/Autobiography, The
Boston Book Review's Non-Fiction
prize, the ABBY Award, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Time Magazine and Newsweek chose
Angela's Ashes as the
best nonfiction book of 1996.
The hardcover of Angela's
Ashes spent 23 weeks at #1
on the New York Times bestseller
list. The Alan Parker film of
Angela's Ashes, starring
Emily Watson, was released to
wide acclaim in 1999; the same
year that the second volume of
McCourt's memoirs, 'Tis',
was published. Teacher
Man was published in
hardcover in 2005.
"F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. I think I've proved him wrong. And all because I refused to settle for a one-act existence, the 30 years I taught English in various New York City high schools." - Frank McCourt.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Teacher Man. It originally ran in November 2005 and has been updated for the
September 2006 paperback edition.
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