**FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS** FILE - In this March 13, 1998 file photo, Irish-American and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, author of "Angela's Ashes," listens as he is introduced at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, in New York. McCourt died Sunday afternoon July 19, 2009, at a Manhattan hospice in New York City at age 78. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)