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Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.¿ He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone. In addition to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, ¿Angela¿s Ashes¿ won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. McCourt¿s first book was about gro...
Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.¿ He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone. In addition to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, ¿Angela¿s Ashes¿ won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. McCourt¿s first book was about growing up poor in Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was born in New York in 1931, his family returned to Ireland in 1934. McCourt quit school as a young teenager to work odd jobs to help support his mother and three surviving brothers. At the age of 19, he returned to the United States and earned his undergraduate degree from New York University, then his Master¿s degree from Brooklyn College in 1958. Then he began his teaching career. The sequel to ¿Angela¿s Ashes¿ was followed by ¿Tis: A Memoir¿ in September 1999 and ¿Teacher Man¿ in 2005.
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Don Baylor returns to baseball as Rockies coach
Thanksgiving week was a slow one around baseball, but the trickle of transactions contained some really good news. Don Baylor, the former Cubs manager who battled cancer in an inspirational way — hardly surprising for anyone who knows him —...Tags: New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Manny Ramirez, Geovany Soto, A.J. Pierzynski
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Not really a tough choice for fans
Dear Jamie and Frank, I didn't think it was possible for you to reach new lows, but you proved me wrong. Are you really going with the "It's the fault of the fans" excuse for not signing free agents? Is this the best option you came up with in your...Tags: Pete Carroll, Andruw Jones, Boston Bruins, Dining and Drinking, Bobby Jenks
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Report: CC won't decide on Yanks 'till after Thanksgiving
ken.davidoff@newsday.com, anthony.rieber@newsday.comThe Yankees are content to let CC Sabathia take his time on his big decision, and Sabathia will do just that. As first reported by ESPN's Peter Gammons, Sabathia doesn't intend to decide on his next team until after the Thanksgiving weekend. But for...Tags: Boston Red Sox, Holidays, Diseases, Manny Ramirez, Major League Baseball
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Local girl swings for the fences, scores
Jamie Luskin McCourt is a local girl who made good. Really good. The tomboy daughter of Baltimore's appliance guy, Jack Luskin, who grew up playing street ball with her brothers and their pals, and scoring baseball games with her dad at Memorial Stadium,...Tags: University of Maryland, Boston Red Sox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Academic Progress, Major League Baseball
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Books in Brief
Special to The Baltimore SunForgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin By Bill Kauffman ISI Books / 202 pages / $25 After graduating with honors from the College of New Jersey, Luther Martin (1748-1846) took up law, married the daughter of a prominent Maryland...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking, Maryland, Family, Towson University
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Free agent season starts now
We come to talk about Manny Ramirez, and the Dodgers, and free agency. Yet we must first talk about cool scented towels.
This is because the Dodgers have forfeited the chance to cite the economic crisis should Ramirez sign elsewhere. If they offer him...Tags: New York Mets, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Manny Ramirez, Orlando Cabrera
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USC coverage: Stop fighting on
Week after week after interminable week in his column "On College Football," Chris Dufresne does not write about college football. Instead, he cries, moans and weeps with his good buddy Pete Carroll about the unfairness of the BCS to Southern Cal. Your...Tags: Pete Carroll, Marathon, Football, Manny Ramirez, Boston Bruins
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Arts groups feeling the economic squeeze
After 10 years of performing The Nutcracker at Jim Rouse Theatre in Columbia, the Howard County Ballet is moving its popular holiday tradition to Reservoir High School. The price tag was too high and funding too scarce to use the Rouse Theatre this...Tags: Arts, Tickets, Sales, Local Authority, Theater
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Dodgers would make Barnum proud on so Manny levels
There's a sucker born every minute, and Frank McCourt is counting on that so he can continue to fill Dodger Stadium.
This last week, McCourt played Dodgers fans and the baseball world for fools, ESPN buying into it with a crawl at the bottom of the...Tags: Andruw Jones, Juan Pierre, Manny Ramirez, Joe Torre, Kentucky Derby
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Nonfiction review: 'The Longest Trip Home' by John Grogan
Books EditorJohn Grogan's follow-up to his mega-selling Marley & Me poses a signal challenge, both to the author and to the whole enterprise of the "memoir." Can a successful memoir be constructed without some combination of the genre's by-now familiar horrors?...Tags: John Grogan, Family, Key West, Sales, Little Havana
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'Marley& Me' author releases new memoir, 'The Longest Trip Home'
Books EditorJohn Grogan's follow-up to his mega-selling Marley & Me poses a signal challenge, both to the author and to the whole enterprise of the "memoir." Can a successful memoir be constructed without some combination of the genre's by-now familiar horrors?...Tags: John Grogan, Family, Key West, Sales, Little Havana
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Dodgers' offer to Manny Ramirez might be too short
Manny Ramirez's agent made it clear Thursday that the contract the Dodgers offered his client isn't long enough, the first audible indication that efforts to re-sign the free agent outfielder will be a drawn-out process.
The Dodgers' deal would guarantee...Tags: New York Mets, Al Kaline, Atlanta Braves, Manny Ramirez, Major League Baseball
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