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Frank McCourt

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in Brooklyn, New York City, The United States

August 19, 1930

Died

July 19, 2009

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Biographies & Memoirs

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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 · 772,861 ratings · 21,642 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 660,408 ratings — published 1996 — 311 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'Tis 3.74 avg rating — 66,469 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 40,219 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angela's Ashes/'Tis Boxed Set 4.15 avg rating — 1,687 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angela and the Baby Jesus 4.08 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 2007 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angela's Ashes / 'Tis / Teacher Man 4.36 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Couple of Blaguards by Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt 3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brotherhood by Frank McCourt, Rudy Giuliani, Thomas Von Essen 4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt by Frank McCourt, Tom Allon (Editor), Jonah Allon (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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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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September 2016 New School Group Read

1982, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 448 pages

41 votes, 19.3%

1980, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 416 pages

35 votes, 16.5%

1979, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 260 pages

23 votes, 10.8%

1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, 256 pages

23 votes, 10.8%

1969, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 304 pages

21 votes, 9.9%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages

20 votes, 9.4%

1969, Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, 459 pages

19 votes, 9.0%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages

11 votes, 5.2%

1986, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, 208 pages

10 votes, 4.7%

1965, The Magus by John Fowles, 656 pages

9 votes, 4.2%

212 total votes

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