Frank McCourt (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 19, 1930, to Irish immigrant parents. His father, Malachy McCourt, was born in Northern Ireland. Although the consumption of alcohol was prohibited at the time, New York's illegal but widely tolerated speakeasies became the focus of Malachy's life. By any measurement he was an alcoholic, liable to abandon work and family at any time for a drink, or several.
Frank McCourt's mother, Angela Sheehan, was from the city of Limerick in western Ireland and grew up in a slum. Her father had abandoned the family...
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