Oscar Hijuelos (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Oscar Hijuelos (ee-WAYL-ohs) is widely regarded as a successful Latino writer who has moved Latino cultural expression from the margins to the center of mainstream recognition. He was born to immigrant Cuban parents in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. In his childhood, he witnessed the ordeals of his family in exile, and he suffered the turmoils of growing up Hispanic in the United States.
Hijuelos’s father, Pascual, who worked as a dishwasher and a cook, died when Hijuelos was a teenager; his mother, Magdalena, was a homemaker who yearned to write poetry. His...
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