Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt won the Pulitzer prize for his autobiography, Angela's Ashes, a best selling memoir named after his mother about his childhood experiences growing up in the slums of pre-war Limerick, Ireland. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism. The book was published in 1996, rose to the top of the best-seller lists and stayed there for more than two years, selling four million copies in hardback. The next year, it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award.