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Frank McCourt

Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt discuss storytelling.

Aired 11/14/2002 | Rating TV-G

Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection

Frank McCourt

Special | 28m 48s

Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt discuss storytelling.

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Frank McCourt discusses the loss of the storytelling ethos in our culture, and the need to preserve history through both oral and written tradition. Additional discussion about his experiences teaching which led to the 2005 book "Teacher Man". McCourt says it was his students who urged him to write his memoir of growing up poor in Ireland, which was eventually publi

Aired 11/14/2002 | Rating TV-G

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Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV

Major Funding Provided by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation

Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection

Frank McCourt

Special | 28m 48s

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Frank McCourt discusses the loss of the storytelling ethos in our culture, and the need to preserve history through both oral and written tradition. Additional discussion about his experiences teaching which led to the 2005 book "Teacher Man". McCourt says it was his students who urged him to write his memoir of growing up poor in Ireland, which was eventually publi

Aired 11/14/2002 | Rating TV-G

Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback

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Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV

Major Funding Provided by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation

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