Der Amerikaner mit der unglücklichen irischen katholischen Kindheit hat dreißig Jahre lang an New Yorker Schulen unterrichtet. Im dritten Teil seiner Memoiren erzählt er, was er von seinen rund zwölftausend Schülern gelernt hat und wie...

FROM THE PULIZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER "ANGELA'S ASHES" Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere. It won the National Book...

Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, "Angela's Ashes,"...