The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
by Oscar Hijuelos
List Price: $14.00
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0060955457
Publisher: HarperCollins
The son of Cuban immigrants, Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York City
in 1951. He received a B.A. from New York's City College, where he studied
writing under Donald Barthelme. Before he became a full-time author, Hijuelos
endured a series of odd jobs: raising insects in Wisconsin, selling shoes
in Macy's and writing ads that appeared in New York City subway cars.
His first novel, Our House in the Last World, won him the American Academy
of Arts and Letter's 1985 Rome Prize, enabling him to spend a year in
Italy and begin his second novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo
Kings Play Songs of Love. This was followed by The Fourteen Sisters of
Emilio Montez O' Brien, Mr. Ives' Christmas, and The Empress of the Splendid
Season. Hijuelos lives in New York City.
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