UPDATE – Frank McCourt, the author of Angela’s Ashes, has died aged 78 after suffering from meningitis and having been diagnosed with Melanoma.
Last May, while McCourt was on a Pacific cruise, he suffered a seizure. He was taken to a New York Hospital and diagnosed with melanoma.
The author achieved worldwide recognition with “Angela’s Ashes,” a story of his childhood years in Limerick that was made into a movie and in 1997 won the onetime schoolteacher a Pulitzer Prize.
Malachy McCourt was quoted in newspapers saying that his 78-year-old brother, “was not expected to live”.
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