Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Frank McCourt] considered his public speaking

prowess inseparable from his role as a writer and accepted several invitations a year to appear at charitable fund-raisers and writing workshops at Connecticut's community college campuses. His name on the marquee of the Warner Theater in Torrington or Hartford's Bushnell guaranteed a sellout audience.

In private conversations, as well as before audiences, McCourt was an effortless, comic entertainer.

from The Hartford Courant: Frank McCourt, Author Of Angela's Ashes, Dies At 78
also The Hartford Courant: Pictures: Frank McCourt

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