Frank McCourt is an Irish-American teacher and author. He was born in New York City and grew up in Limerick, Ireland. At the age of 19 he returned to the United States and earned a degree from New York University. He taught English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.

He received the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his memoir Angela's Ashes. He is also the author of 'Tis. His latest memoir is called Teacher Man.

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Joan Greenbaum is a Professor of computer information systems and environmental psychology at City University Of New York (CUNY).  Her most recent book, Windows on the Workplace (2004, Monthly Review Press) captures stories of organizations and the people who work for them within the history of office technology in the last 50 years. 

Greenbaum has a doctorate in economics and has worked in IT design, implementation and teaching for over 40 years.  Her book, Design at Work, edited together with Morten Kyng (1991, Erlbaum Press), addressed the concern of IT people to produce systems cooperatively with users in the context of their work.  She is author of more than 50 articles covering issues such as gender and the construction of technology, workplace organization, and teaching systems design.  Her most recent area of research and teaching focuses on the meaning of place in the design and use of new media technology. .