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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><u><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Frank
McCourt</font></u><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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<p><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#006633"><a href="mccourt_main.htm" target="main"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Biography</font></font></a></font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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<h2 align="center"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Frank
McCourt </font></h2>
<p align="center"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><font size="3">Check
out<br>
<a href="booktour.htm">Frank's Book Tour 1999/2000</a></font><br>
</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684874350/poeticlicense09"><img src="../IMAGES/angelas.gif" width="92" height="140" align="left" border="0" alt="Click here to order Angela's Ashes" vspace="6" hspace="6"></a>Angela's
Ashes</b> is Frank McCourt's moving memoir of growing up in the slums
of Limerick, Ireland. It is one of my favorite books and I can tell you
that there's not other book like it. <i>Angela's Ashes</i> has remained
on the New York Times bestseller lists for the last two years and won
Frank a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997.<br>
<br>
Having just completed <i>'Tis</i>, his long awaited sequel to <i>Angela's
Ashes</i>, which was released on September 21st, Frank has already begun
a hectic 20-city tour to promote the book, which Publishers Weekly has
already proclaimed to be as good as <i>Angela's Ashes</i>. </font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">Kirkus Reviews
writes, "Those whose hearts went out to the little boy who suffered
so in Limerick might be put off by the hard-drinking, carousing grownup.
But there's no denying McCourt's engaging wit. Is it as rewarding as Angela's
Ashes? `Tis."</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684848783/celticcafe02"><img src="../IMAGES/tis.gif" width="91" height="140" align="right" border="1" alt="Click here to order 'Tis" vspace="6" hspace="6"></a>'Tis</b>
is "a story of bewilderment, fear and timidity in America,"
according to Frank. It begins where <b>Angela's Ashes</b> left off when
Frank returns to America at the age of 19 in 1949. Frank admits that two
of the best things to have happened to him were getting into the US army,
which "forced him into the American mainstream", and teaching,
which "reinforced it."</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>'Tis</b>
follows him into his 30-year teaching career, and although he has been
retired from teaching since 1987, Frank remains a staunch supporter of
public education and teachers' rights.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.velvetwebdesign.com/family/my_summer_vacation.htm"><img src="../IMAGES/svwc_mccourt.jpg" width="120" height="128" align="left" border="1" alt="Sun Valley, Idaho" vspace="6" hspace="6"></a>Frank
recently appeared on '60 Minutes' with Ed Bradley on September 19 to help
launch <b>'Tis. </b>The '60 Minutes' episode featured Frank back in Limerick,
Ireland--the setting for his bestselling memoir,<b> Angela's Ashes.</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">I met Frank
McCourt along with other writers at Sun Valley, Idaho, where he spoke
of the release of the much anticipated film version of <b>Angela's Ashes</b>
on December 17th of this year. He and his wife, Ellen Frey McCourt, were
pleased with the movie and Frank said he was left speechless after reviewing
the film. I bet that we, along with increasing the sale of Kleenex, would
be, too.</font></p>
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