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Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

Irish Author

Born: Aug 19, 1930

Died: Jul 19, 2009

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We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away. Frank McCourt

They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun. Frank McCourt

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Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Frank McCourt

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There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed. Frank McCourt

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Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost. Frank McCourt

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I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list. Frank McCourt

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