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Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage

Dave Astor | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Daphne Du Maurier, Stephen King, Svengali, John Cheever, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Twilight Zone, Joan Didion, Jane Eyre, George Du Maurier, Famous Authors, Angela's Ashes, Bronte Sisters, Wuthering Heights, Frank Mccourt, Alice Walker, Alexandre Dumas, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, Books News
Dave Astor

The Bronte sisters weren't alone in blood being as thick as ink.

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Spotted Reading In Public: What's Everyone Else Reading This Summer?

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Video, Junot Diaz, Henry Kissinger, Angela's Ashes, Summer Books, Summer Reads, David Foster Wallace, William Faulkner, On China, Infinite Jest, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Frank Mccourt, The Sound and the Fury, Spotted Reading in Public, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Books News

After a long, harsh winter, it is finally really warming up outside. And, boy, does it feel great! We're sure you're daydreaming of the exotic vaca...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day: HuffPost Readers Pick Their Favorite Irish Books (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Happy St. Patrick's Day 2011, and in honor of the day of shamrocks, parades and green beer, we asked you to tell us your favorite books by Irish autho...

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Astoria Characters: The Proud Parader

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: County Kildare, Astoria, St. Patrick's College, Homosexual, Lesbian, 9/11, John McNeill, Tom Moulton, Mouse, Elephant, Gay Rights, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Irish Christian Brothers, Dublin, Brendan Fay, Aids, New York News, Robert Rygor, St. John's University, Lech Kaczynski, Pancakes, Mary Louis Academy, Mychal Judge, Act-Up, Angela's Ashes, Jamaica, Poland, St. Pat's for All Parade & Fair, David Dinkins, Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Maynooth, Athy, Drogheda, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

The famed Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade excludes gays and lesbians. Brendan Fay and his peers were allowed to march on Fifth Avenue only once -- in 1991.

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Frank McCourt Dead At 78

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ash...

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He Showed the World Through Teachers' Eyes: Thank You, Frank McCourt

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Reform, New York City Public Schools, Education, Random House, Stuyvesant High School, Angela's Ashes, Terry Gross, Shakespeare, Teachers, Storycorps, Frank Mccourt, Fresh Air, Media News
Dan Brown

Occasionally, a teacher can cross over from the all-consuming teaching sphere to tell the tale to the masses. No one in recent memory did this more successfully than Frank McCourt.

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Tell The Truth: You're a Real Storyteller

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Limerick, Books, Laermer.com, American Literature, Pulitzer Prize, Angela's Ashes, Frank Mccourt, Autobiograhies, Ireland, Prospective Customer Acquisition, Customers, Reading, Truth Commission, Media News
Richard Laermer

The success of Angela's Ashes taught us that the most popular stories that seem to resonate with readers and spur new and positive changes are often the true ones.

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Cronkite and McCourt: True to Their Craft

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Icon, Television, Honesty, Angela's Ashes, Walter Cronkite, Cancer, Wbbm, Frank Mccourt, A Reporter's Life, Irish, Catholic, Media, Healthy Living News
Carol Hoenig

Pundits all praise Cronkite for his journalistic accomplishments, as though they are unattainable today. And maybe they are, thanks to the corporate-owned media.

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