My favorite autobiography author Frank McCourt dies!!! :(

My favorite author of one of my favorite autobiographies, Frank McCourt, died today in a hospital in New York. He died at 78 years old.

He had died from mesothelioma, and had been struck with the worst form of skin cancer - melanoma, and died in a Manhattan Med Hospital brother Malachy McCourt said. (Said in his autobiography, he also has other siblings but have died: twin brothers Oliver and Eugene McCourt, Michael McCourt, Alphie McCourt, and Malachy McCourt Jr. who remains alive.)

Frank McCourt's life was extremely hard on him. But his books, Angela's Ashes, and the sequel, 'Tis, made his life amusing and moody at the worst of times.

A famous excerpt will be well remembered from his book, "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty, the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters, the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years."

McCourt will be cremated, Malachy Jr. McCourt said. A memorial service will be held in September.