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Frank McCourt


Born
in Brooklyn, New York City, The United States
August 19, 1930

Died
July 19, 2009

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs


Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 769,508 ratings · 21,477 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCou...
4.15 avg rating — 657,573 ratings — published 1996 — 310 editions
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'Tis
3.74 avg rating — 66,132 ratings — published 1999 — 154 editions
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The Angela's Ashes/'Tis Box...
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Angela and the Baby Jesus
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“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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August 2015 New School Classic Poll

1931, Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages
 
  21 votes, 16.4%

 
  21 votes, 16.4%

 
  18 votes, 14.1%

1982, Schindler'sList by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  17 votes, 13.3%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  11 votes, 8.6%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.8%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  9 votes, 7.0%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages
 
  9 votes, 7.0%

1956, Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages
 
  8 votes, 6.3%

1989, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, 348 pages
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

128 total votes
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