Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos. |
Entrance of 419 West 118th Street in Manhattan. The Hijuelos family lived in a first floor apartment to the left of the front door. Photo by Claudio Weisz. |
Memorial plaque in front of Oscar Hijuelos' childhood home. Photo by Claudio Weisz. |
Other works by Hijuelos include Our House in the Last World, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Mr. Ives' Christmas, Empress of the Splendid Season, A Simple Habana Melody (from when the world was good), Dark Dude, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, and Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir. In addition to writing, he taught at Hofstra University and was affiliated with Duke University.
Hijuelos on the roof of 419 West 118th Street. |
Hijuelos passed away in 2013 of a heart attack after playing a game of tennis (one of his favorite hobbies). He left behind his widow, writer and editor Lori Marie Carlson.
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