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'Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish
childhood', so writes Frank McCourt in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel. This is a story of extreme poverty and hardship that is not for the faint hearted. Indeed it sometimes traverses the line between entertainment and enlightenment.

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Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.¿ He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone.

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"F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. I think I've proved him wrong. And all because I refused to settle for a one-act existence, the 30 years I taught English in various New York City high schools."

Frank McCourt was already retired when he published his first book at age 66. Angela's Ashes, a memoir of his impoverished boyhood in Limerick, Ireland, shot to the top of the best-seller lists and remained there for over a year. Angela's Ashes won McCourt the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. It was still topping the paperback lists when McCourt's second book 'Tis hit the bookstores, and the best-seller lists.

"After retiring from teaching I wanted a second act, not a rocker in Florida," McCourt says. After a lifetime of helping young people find their own voices, Frank McCourt has found his own, and millions of readers have found a friend to treasure.

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