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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McCourt Francis "Frank" McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York to Irish parents.
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Malachy Jr is born in Brooklyn, New York. Frank's first brother.
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Twins Oliver and Eugene are born in Brooklyn, New York. Frank's 3rd and 4th brothers.
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Frank's sister Margaret died eight weeks after she was born in 1935. The family then packed up everything to their name and moved back to Limerick, Ireland.
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Almost a year after Frank's sister Margaret died, his brothers Oliver and Eugene died of illness in Limerick, Ireland.
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Frank McCourt gets typhoid fever at age 11 due to lack of nutrition. Frank was in hospital for two weeks.
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Frank's father Malachy Sr left Limerick to find work in the factories of wartime in Coventry, England.
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Frank's school education ended at age 13 when the Irish Christian Brothers ejected him even though his writing skills were top class.
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Time Frank, at the age of 19, left Ireland to head back to New York City on a boat with all the money he saved working for the post office and also doing odd jobs his whole teenage life. He made $26 per week and sent $10 of it back to his mother in Limerick.
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Wikipedia Frank was drafted into the Korean war and was sent to Bavaria for two years training dogs.
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The Story In 1957, Frank graduated from New York Uiversity with a Bachelor's Degree in English
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Frank married Alberta Small and had a daughter Margaret.
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Frank married his second wife, Cheryl Ford. She was a psychotherapist.
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Frank married his third and final wife Ellen Frey McCourt in August 1994 where they lived in New York City.
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Frank published an autobiography of his life as a young boy growing up in difficult conditions in Limerick, Ireland. The book ends right before he is about to travel back to America alone.
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This is a sequel to "Angela's Ashes". The book " 'Tis" continues the narrative of his life picking up from the end of the first book.
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Frank is diagnosed with Melanoma and was in remission, undergoing home chemotherapy.
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CNN Frank died on July 19th, 2009 to cancer due to meningeal. He is survived by his wife Ellen, his daughter Maggie, grandsons Frank, Jack and Avery and his three brothers and their families.
