Celebrity author

Frank McCourt in the L.A. Times, on becoming a celebrity author:

"I wasn't prepared for it. After teaching, I was getting all this attention. They actually looked at me — people I had known for years — and they were friendly and they looked at me in a different way. And I was thinking, 'All those years I was a teacher, why didn't you look at me like that then?' "

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