Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [1][2] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [3] owner of the football club Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [3] .

Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) 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. [1]

Jan 11, 2025 · Frank McCourt was an American author and teacher who was perhaps best known for the memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Frank was the first child of Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt.

Jul 20, 2009 · Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer...

Jul 19, 2009 · At the beginning of the Korean War, 19-year-old Frank McCourt was drafted into the United States Army and sent on a troop ship to Hamburg, West Germany, where he would train German shepherds and later become a clerk.

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood. The book details his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism.

Jul 20, 2009 · Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela’s Ashes,” died in...

After a thirty-year career with the New York Public School system of telling his English students to write what they know, Frank McCourt took his own advice. The resulting book, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, tells the story of McCourt's poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland.

6 days ago · U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the ...

6 days ago · DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control ...