Author Frank McCourt poses for photographs during an interview with Reuters at Stuyvesant High School in New York City in this November 14, 2005 file photo. McCourt, the Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" that chronicled his impoverished upbringing, died on July 19, 2009, The New York Times reported. He was 78. REUTERS/Mike Segar/Files (UNITED STATES MEDIA SOCIETY OBITUARY)