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Author Frank McCourt may have only weeks to live

The Independent in the U.K. is reporting that Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt may be near death. It was publicly announced in May that McCourt, who turns 79 next month, had been battling melanoma and that following a course of chemotherapy the cancer had gone into remission. Reports now claim that McCourt’s condition has deteriorated. From The Independent:

After receiving treatment at the world-famous Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York, the writer was declared well enough to return home to Connecticut.

However, a friend said yesterday that Mr. McCourt’s condition has deteriorated dramatically since then and that he is seriously ill.

It is understood he became unwell while on a cruise in the Pacific and was transferred to a hospital in Tahiti.

McCourt’s first book, the memoir Angela’s Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. He followed up on this success with two other bestselling memoirs, ‘Tis and Teacher Man. The author published his first children’s book, Angela and the Baby Jesus, in 2007, and The Independent reports that he has been working on his first novel and is planning a YA book.

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