Winner of the 2007 Audie Prize for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the writer

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how exactly one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an improbable star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary picture with Angela’s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his child years in Limerick, Ireland..Read More about Teacher Guy: A Memoir Then came ‘Tis, his glorious accounts of his early years in NY.

Now, at last is definitely McCourt’s long-awaited book about how exactly his thirty-year teaching career formed his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an immediate tribute to instructors everywhere. In strong and spirited prose offering his irreverent wit and persuasive honesty, McCourt records the tests, triumphs and surprises he experienced in the class. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unequalled ability to inform a great tale as, five days weekly, five periods each day, he proved helpful to gain the interest and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents.

For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Instructor Man the trip to redemption — and literary fame — can be an exhilarating adventure.