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Frank McCourt

1930 - 2009

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Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank McCourt has received more than 1,862,044 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank McCourt is the 2,364th most popular writer (down from 1,740th in 2019), the 2,965th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,268th in 2019) and the 260th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Teacher Man
High school teachers, Irish Americans, Nonfiction
2005
'Tis
Irish Americans, New York (N.Y.), Biography
1999
Lo Es
1999
Les cendres d'Angela
Biographies, Américains d'origine irlandaise, Famille
1998
Tis Unabridged
1999
Angela's Ashes
Irish Americans, Irlandeses-americanos, Family
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. in the 1930s and 40s. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. - Jacket flap.
1996

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frank McCourt ranks 2,364 out of 7,302. Before him are Ybyrai Altynsarin, Frigyes Karinthy, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Salvadore Cammarano, Vítězslav Nezval, and Luigi Illica. After him are Ueda Akinari, William Auld, Ulf Stark, António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, and Dionysios Solomos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Frank McCourt ranks 179. Before him are Israel Kirzner, Yves Rocher, Sa'dun Hammadi, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Robert Culp. After him are Anatoly Lukyanov, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Thomas P. Stafford, María Elena Walsh, Jānis Pujats, and Lazar Berman. Among people deceased in 2009, Frank McCourt ranks 110. Before him are Andrew Wyeth, Inger Christensen, Bea Arthur, Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Yves Rocher, and Amir Pnueli. After him are John Hughes, Stephen Toulmin, Armen Takhtajan, Janet Jagan, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Vyacheslav Ivankov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank McCourt ranks 2,965 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Tucker (1854), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Anne Meara (1929), Susan Flannery (1939), Robert Culp (1930), and Ezzard Charles (1921). After him are Bo Derek (1956), Lois Chiles (1947), John Derek (1926), Katherine MacGregor (1925), Bob Iger (1951), and Jack Welch (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Frank McCourt ranks 260. Before him are August Derleth (1909), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Terence McKenna (1946), Kathy Reichs (1948), William Peter Blatty (1928), and Terry Bisson (1942). After him are Neil Postman (1931), Charles Berlitz (1913), Kate Millett (1934), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), and Mary Mapes Dodge (1831).

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