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(1951-2013) Novelist. Oscar Hijuelos was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Oscar Hijuelos

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1951

BIRTH

Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was born in Manhattan, New York, on August 24, 1951.

1983

LITWORK

Our House In The Last World
Persea
0892550694 / 978-0892550692
Novel.

1989

LITWORK

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374201250 / 978-0374201258
Novel, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1993

LITWORK

The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374158150 / 978-0374158156
Novel.

1995

LITWORK

Mr. Ives's Christmas
Harper Collins Publishers
0060171316 / 978-0060171315
Novel.

1999

LITWORK

Empress Of The Splendid Season
Harper
0060175702 / 978-0060175702
Novel.

2002

LITWORK

A Simple Habana Melody (From When The World Was Good)
Harper
0060175699 / 978-0060175696
Novel.

2009

LITWORK

Dark Dude
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
1416949453 / 978-1416949459
Young adult novel.

2010

LITWORK

Beautiful Maria Of My Soul
Hyperion Books
1401323340 / 978-1401323349
Novel.

2011

LITWORK

Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Gotham
1592406297 / 978-1592406296
Memoir.

2013

DEATH

Oscar Hijuelos died in Manhattan, New York, on October 12, 2013.

2013

INTERMENT

Mr. Hijuelos's remains were cremated and given to his family.

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