{"personal_name": "Frank McCourt", "name": "Frank McCourt", "key": "/authors/OL26363A", "title": "Schriftsteller", "photos": [7402374], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "84035838", "wikidata": "Q208869", "isni": "0000000116801281", "bookbrainz": "d22a4517-3cde-4519-8206-5e2f8d0dd3d5", "musicbrainz": "551e5261-28f5-4992-81f0-795a1cde0031", "goodreads": "3347", "imdb": "nm0566660", "lc_naf": "n96014250", "opac_sbn": "RAVV102028", "gnd": "11946411X"}, "bio": "Francis \"Frank\" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize (1997) and National Book Critics Circle Award (1996) for his memoir *Angela's Ashes* (1996), which details his childhood as a poor Irish Catholic in Limerick. He is also the author of *'Tis* (1999), which continues the narrative of his life, picking up from the end of the previous book and focusing on life as a new immigrant in America. *Teacher Man* (2005) detailed the challenges of being a young, uncertain teacher who must impart knowledge to his students. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Western Ontario.", "source_records": ["amazon:2744113875", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-04-16", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-11-19", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-18", "ia:bwb_KS-664-704", "ia:bwb_S0-BIH-472"], "death_date": "July 19, 2009", "birth_date": "August 19, 1930", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Frank MacCourt"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-09-29T00:40:05.825688"}}