NEW YORK Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive, the author's brother said Thursday.

Malachy McCourt said that his 78-year-old brother, best known for the million-selling "Angela's Ashes," is in a New York hospice, "his faculties shutting down."

"He is not expected to live," said McCourt, himself an author and performer.

Frank McCourt was recently treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, but his brother says he had been doing well until about two weeks ago, when he contracted meningitis.

"He was out and about, being active, doing talks and so forth," Malachy McCourt said.

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How sad. He is one of my favorite authors. I love Angele's Ashes and also "It"

what a horrible childhood he and his siblings had.

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I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and
all the less important ones just never go away.
And the real pains in the ass are permanent.

Meningitis is becoming a bit scary. 

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Oh I love reading Frank McCourt. I certainly hope he recovers completely.

Frank McCourt dies at 78

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1911633,00.html

Sorry to hear that. May he RIP..

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I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and
all the less important ones just never go away.
And the real pains in the ass are permanent.

He had a wonderful writing style.

RIP Frank and deepest sympathies to your family.

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poetse; Those incapable of lerning never made it to the third dauy of class.

AJC; The students must have been relieved to get a replacement teacher on the third day.

They said on the news that it was cancer.  Someone got something wrong.

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McCourt, the beloved former school teacher and author of "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer. He was 78, gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and the cause of his death, said his publisher, Scribner.

 

Apparently it was both diseases.

Thanks, sandy, I thought I was getting Alzheimer's.

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