Frank McCourt, writer of best-seller Angela's Ashes, has died of cancer in a New York hospice.
The 78-year-old Irish-American writer was suffering from meningitis and had recently been treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Angela's Ashes, a journal of McCourt's childhood in Ireland, sold millions of copies and won the Pulitzer Prize.
Before the book's 1996 publication, McCourt was a New York high school teacher for 30 years.
