The last teacher I had was a man named O’Halloran. But he was the only one who offered words of encouragement, who told us we were distinct, unique individuals with a right to think for ourselves. And that was just before we left Leamy’s National School. And he told me, “My boy, you are a literary genius.” And you can imagine what I had to put up with at the schoolyard with all the others. “Hey, McCourt, you’re a literary genius. Look at him. Look at the literary genius.
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Frank McCourt
Teacher and memoirist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Ireland · 1930–2009
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Irish-American teacher and writer who taught in New York public schools for thirty years and won the Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes, a memoir of his Limerick childhood.
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