Raconteur

Actor and celebrated raconteur Frank McCourt is back in the headlines this year with news of a bidding war between U.S. and European publishers over his expected “fictional autobiography,” Angela’s Ashes, which apparently had editors salivating. 

McCourt eventually sold the American rights to Scribners, who coughed up $125,000 for that particular honor. Angela’s Ashes, compared by some who have read it to the best of Joyce and Roddy Doyle, also sold in Britain, to Harper Collins UK for 60,000 pounds. 

Limerick-born Frank McCourt, who, with his brother Malachy, has entertained thousands of Irish Americans, is keeping up the tradition. 

His book is sure to amuse McCourt’s fans and earn him some new ones.