If I were going to be in the Purchase, NY area on February 2nd, I would buy my tickets immediately so I could attend author Frank McCourt’s talk about his childhood, his teaching career and his writing life.

McCourt’s discussion is part of Purchase College’s “Conversations on Creativity, Craft and Career” series. I’ve read McCourt’s first two memoirs, Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis, and am currently reading his most recent book, Teacher Man.

It would be a happy way to spend an evening, to sit in a room with someone who has led such an interesting life and to listen to them tell the story of how and why they went from Point A to Point B, and what bits and threads went in to making them the sort of educator they turned out to be. McCourt was never considered a conventional teacher, and it’s almost always the odd ducks that have the better story to tell.

Posted by Alexa Harrington

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