He was only 62, at least he was doing something he enjoyed when he collapsed.
Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer-Winning Author of “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” Dies
Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture, becoming the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his 1989 book, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 62.
Mr. Hijuelos collapsed on the tennis court and never regained consciousness, said his wife, Lisa Marie Carlson.
A New Yorker by birth, education and residence, Mr. Hijuelos might be (and has been) said to be more American-Cuban than Cuban-American. In novels such as “Our House in the Last World” (1983), which traces a family’s travails from Havana to Spanish Harlem, and “The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien” (1993), about several generations of a Cuban-Irish family in Pennsylvania, he wrote about the nonnative experience in the United States.
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