Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos, best known as the author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has died.
His wife said Hijuelos collapsed while playing tennis in New York. He was 62.
The New York-born Hijuelos captured the Cuban immigrant experience in The Mambo Kings -- the story of two Cuban brothers who move to the United States and form a band.
They gain short-lived celebrity after appearing on the real-life television comedy I Love Lucy, starring Cuban-born entertainer Desi Arnaz.
The 1989 novel won Hijuelos a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was turned into a popular movie.
Hijuelos wrote several other novels and also his 2011 memoirs, Thoughts Without Cigarettes.
His wife said Hijuelos collapsed while playing tennis in New York. He was 62.
The New York-born Hijuelos captured the Cuban immigrant experience in The Mambo Kings -- the story of two Cuban brothers who move to the United States and form a band.
They gain short-lived celebrity after appearing on the real-life television comedy I Love Lucy, starring Cuban-born entertainer Desi Arnaz.
The 1989 novel won Hijuelos a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was turned into a popular movie.
Hijuelos wrote several other novels and also his 2011 memoirs, Thoughts Without Cigarettes.
