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...most of his life, until he was well into his 60s, Frank McCourt wasn't a writer; he was a teacher. But it is as a writer, the author of the wildly successful memoir Angela's Ashes, that he will be remembered. He died on July 19 in New York of meningitis. He was 78 years old. (Read TIME's 1996 piece on Angela's Ashes...
...abandoned the family. At 11, McCourt became their principal source of income, stealing and working odd jobs. Although he quit school, he continued to read whenever he could. At 19, he returned to the U.S., served in the Army during the Korean War and earned a degree at New York University under the GI Bill...
Although he kept a journal and dabbled in journalism and the theater, McCourt spent most of the next 30 years teaching English and creative writing in New York City schools for a modest salary. He had a natural flair for it. On his very first day in the classroom, one of his young charges threw a sandwich at another kid. McCourt picked it up and ate it in front of the class, while the students watched, stunned. He had taught his first lesson: an object lesson in what it means to survive starvation...
...With reporting by Nahid Siamdoust / Beirut and Tony Karon / New York...
...fall and tobacco companies step up their presence in other markets to compensate. "People in the region are watching Turkey closely," says Ratte, who is due to take her anti-smoking campaign to Egypt next. "It could become a regional role model, like Ireland was for Europe or New York for the rest...