Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive, the author's brother said today.
The Irish-American writer, best known for the memoir 'Angela's Ashes', was recently treated for melanoma, a form of skin cancer, and was said to have responded quite well to chemotherapy.
But the latest illness has resulted in Mr McCourt, 78, being admitted to a New York hospice where "his faculties are shutting down", his brother said. Malachy McCourt, also an author, added: "He is not expected to live".
