Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos is the international bestselling author of eight novels, including Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, for which he became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has also received the Rome Prize and prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Born in Manhattan in 1951, he divides his time between New York and North Carolina, where he teaches at Duke University.

Books Authored

Image of Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir
Author(s):
Oscar Hijuelos
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir

June 13, 2011
Reviewed by: 
George De Stefano

“When he was only five years old, the Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos lost the Spanish language, and with it his sense of himself as Cuban.

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