As a young student, he would also escape into books. He read voraciously, but he failed the basic primary certificate at Leamy’s National School. (In 2002, the Irish Department of Education and Science awarded Mr. McCourt its first honorary primary school certificate. He called it “the only academic honor I’ve
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The Barefoot Memoirist: Ina Garten Takes Her Story to a New Publisher
In 2019, the celebrity chef Ina Garten set off a flurry of excitement among her millions of fans: Garten, a Food Network star, best-selling cookbook author and social media sensation, was writing a memoir. The publisher behind the book, Celadon, celebrated the acquisition of what was sure to be a
Julia Scully, Influential Photography Editor and Memoirist, Dies at 94
Julia Scully, who after 20 years as the editor of Modern Photography magazine wrote an acclaimed memoir about her Depression-era childhood, when her mother put her and her sister in an orphanage before moving the family into a roadhouse in a remote part of Alaska, died on July 18 at
Lynn C. Franklin, Literary Agent and Memoirist on Adoption, Dies at 74
Lynn C. Franklin, a literary scout and agent whose purchasers included Archbishop Desmond Tutu and who made a mark along with her personal ebook, by which she shared her private story about giving up her son for adoption within the Nineteen Sixties, died on July 19 at her residence in