Frank McCourt

Studio 360

Frank McCourt, who died last week, won the Pulitzer Prize for Angela’s Ashes, his desperate, unsentimental memoir of a destitute childhood. When he spoke with Kurt in 2002, he proposed a new parenting philosophy: “Give children nothing.”

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