Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born 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, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.
"Moving out of the poor Irish lanes of his childhood and now into
the high school classrooms of New York City, Frank McCourt
exchanges one garden of suffering for another, but always with a
comic eye, a sympathetic heart, and the perfect timing of a master
story-teller. Teacher Man is a cry from the barricades of public
education and should be required reading not just for all teachers
but for anyone who ever set foot in a high school. Happily, there
will be no test."
-- Billy Collins
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