Frank McCourt, author of best-seller Angela's Ashes, has died of cancer in a New royalty hospice.
The 78-year-old Irish-American illustrator was pain from meningitis and had recently been treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Angela's Ashes, a memoir of McCourt's immatureness in Ireland, oversubscribed millions of copies and won the house Prize.
Before the book's 1996 publication, McCourt was a New royalty broad school pedagogue for 30 years.
Quoted by the New royalty Times newspaper, Susan Moldow of McCourt's house Scribner said the drive of his death, on Sun afternoon, was metastatic melanoma.
'Epic of woe'
Born in New York, McCourt travelled to island during the Great Depression with his parents at an early age.
Angela's Ashes provides a realistic statement of his immatureness in miserable poverty in the slums of the Irish city of Limerick.
Described by its author as an "epic of woe", the book was prefabricated into a tone flick in 1999 starring Emily Watson and parliamentarian Carlyle.
The BBC's Matt McGrath, an lover of Frank McCourt's work, says it shone a reddened on a dark punctuation of Ireland's ethnic history.
His other works include 'Tis and Teacher Man, which both draw on his after chronicle in New York.
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