Oscar Hijuelos Quote
Clime, to talk about the Bible. To Clemens’s inquiry What, in your opinion, is the Bible? my father, with his effortless genius, summarized his feelings about it in a single phrase: The Bible is a book of allegories made to instruct man in the higher principles that should guide life. And would you consider it a true
Oscar Hijuelos
Clime, to talk about the Bible. To Clemens’s inquiry What, in your opinion, is the Bible? my father, with his effortless genius, summarized his feelings about it in a single phrase: The Bible is a book of allegories made to instruct man in the higher principles that should guide life. And would you consider it a true
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About Oscar Hijuelos
Of Cuban descent, during a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
For his second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (later adapted for the movie The Mambo Kings), he became the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.