FIRSTS Magazine, October, 2009, Volume 19, Number 8 (Frank McCourt)

Robin H. Smiley, 2009. Softcover. Very Good. FIRSTS: The Book Collector's Magazine. October 2009, Volume 19, Number 8 issue, an invaluable magazine resource for book collectors. Issue includes Collecting Frank McCourt, Irish-American teacher and writer, whose first book was published when he was 66 years old. He won a Pulitzer Prize for this book "Angela's Ashes," a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. In addition to earning a Pulitzer, the book also won the National Book Critics Circle award, and in 1999 it was adapted into a well-received film. Bibliography of first editions included. Also included is the article "New Journalism, or what might be called author-centric reporting..." Among the authors included in the article are Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. Bibliography of first editions on this topic included. Clean copy with minimal shelf wear. 56 pp. 11" x 8 1/2". Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.