
Remembering Oscar Hijuelos, 62, 'king' of fiction
Clip: 10/14/2013 | 3m 23s
Remembering Oscar Hijuelos, 62, Cuban-American 'king' of fiction
Novelist Oscar Hijuelos, who has died at the age of 62, was the first Latino American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 book “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.” We remember Hijuelos with an excerpt of a 2011 interview with Ray Suarez about his memoir, "Thoughts Without Cigarettes."
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Remembering Oscar Hijuelos, 62, 'king' of fiction
Clip: 10/14/2013 | 3m 23s
Novelist Oscar Hijuelos, who has died at the age of 62, was the first Latino American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 book “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.” We remember Hijuelos with an excerpt of a 2011 interview with Ray Suarez about his memoir, "Thoughts Without Cigarettes."
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