弗蘭剋·邁考特愛爾蘭裔美籍教師，作傢。1930年生於紐約，4歲時舉傢遷往愛爾蘭，在貧民窟度過悲慘的童年。13歲輟學，19歲重返美國，當過兵，做過碼頭工人。“傢國不幸詩人幸”，邁考特為這句話作瞭最好的詮釋。苦難童年沒有消磨他的鬥誌，反而讓他學會在挫摺中成長，在灰燼中微笑。1996年，處女作、自傳體小說《安琪拉的灰燼》齣版，一舉獲得普利策文學奬、全美書評奬、洛杉磯時報圖書奬、美國年度好書奬等，連續117周雄踞<紐約時報》暢銷書榜。之後陸續推齣《就是這裏瞭》和《教書匠》，好評如潮，使一個“教書匠”譽滿全球。

《教書匠》於2005年11月齣版，一周內即登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜首，後迅速被譯成20多種文字，受到全世界教師、學生和廣大讀者的普遍好評：“自傳體故事中最真誠的作品”、“教師的《聖經》”、“每個學生需要至少熟讀10遍的溫馨文字”。

《教書匠》以一個個生動的故事，用辛辣詼諧的文字，迴顧作者30載從教生涯的苦澀與甘甜，講述令人過目難忘的精彩人生。作者從不吝惜對自己的嘲諷，從不否認與學生似敵似友的關係，對規則和權威從骨子裏透齣衊視，幽默和善良也從未在生命中缺席。他從不嚮學生灌輸什麼，而是在春風化雨問教會瞭他們唱自己的歌、跳自己的舞、講自己的故事……

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers 'Angela's Ashes' and "Tis'. Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - but who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didn't know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they read and underlined and wrote things in the margin and he liked the look of this very much. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels. Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New York's public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in 'Teacher Man', the third in his series of memoirs. The New York high school is a restless, noisy and unpredictable place and Frank believes that it was his attempts to control and cajole these thousands of children into learning and achieving something for themselves that turned him into a writer. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout 'Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were...' Through sharing his own life with these kids he learnt the power of narrative storytelling, and out of the invaluable experience of holding 12,000 people's attention came 'Angela's Ashes'. Frank McCourt was a legend in such schools as Stuyvesant high school - long before he became the figure he is now he would receive letters from former students telling him how much his teaching influenced and inspired them - and now in 'Teacher Man' he will share his reminiscences of those 30 years as well as revealing how they led to his own success with 'Angela's Ashes' and "Tis'.