Angela's Ashes author has meningitis
FRANK McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, is seriously ill with meningitis brought on by skin cancer. His brother, Malachy McCourt, said yesterday.
The writer, 78, is in a New York hospice and was diagnosed with meningitis about two weeks ago following a melanoma.
Mr McCourt said: "He's still conscious, but his hearing has gone and his eyesight is going. He's speaking less."
McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1996 memoir tells of poverty, hunger and alcoholism in the slums in Limerick, Ireland, where he grew up. Millions of copies of the book sold around the world and it was adapted into a film in 1999.
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