Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

This week we play music by blues great Koko Taylor, who died last week at the age of eighty.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

She died at the age of four. Bucky Fuller blamed himself, although he had done everything he could to save her.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

So,at the age of forty-seven she started to glue crushed colored glass in special designs on every surface in her house.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

At the age of six or seven years old, Emmanuel became a soldier for the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

In eighteen sixty, at the age of seventeen, Mary began classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

He continued to broadcast on VOA until not long before his death in 1996, at the age of 75.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

At the age of eighty, she said this about her career: "My identity is very clear to me now.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

At the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest doctors in the United States to hold that position.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

At the age of sixteen, Lena found work as a dancer at the famous Cotton Club in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In eighteen-twenty-three, at the age of eighteen, Smith claimed that an Angel told him of a golden book.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Her sister became a sculptor. After finishing high school at the age of eighteen, Diane married Allan Arbus.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

He was influenced at the age of nine by a painting in his school of the highest mountains on the seven continents.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

At the age of twenty-one, she won a national contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.06