<div><p>After a childhood of almost impossible suffering, Frank McCourt came to embody so many improbable dreams.</p><p>He was a survivor of poverty who became rich, the child of immigrants who made good. He was the retiree who stepped into a magical second life. He was the winning ticket ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frank McCourt, the Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" that chronicled his impoverished upbringing, died on Sunday, The New York Times reported. He was 78.</p><p>The newspaper said the cause was metastatic melanoma, according to an executive ...