Oscar J. Hijuelos Historical

Oscar J. Hijuelos Historical (HM1UVJ)

Location: New York, NY 10027 New York County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 48.474', W 73° 57.562'

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August 24, 1951 - October 12, 2013

—419 West 118 Street, Manhattan —

The son of Cuban immigrants, Oscar Hijuelos lived here from 1951 to 1971, where he first began to write and play guitar and piano. Literature and music would be his life-long passions. A student at Bronx Community College, Manhattan Community College, and Lehman College before entering the City College of New York where he received his B.A. and M.F.A., he was the recipient of The Rome Prize for his first novel, Our House in the Last World (1983). Hijuelos became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990 for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989). He explored the immigrant experience and celebrated the Morningside Heights neighborhood in The Mambo Kings, which was adapted as a film in 1992 and a musical in 2005. In 1998, he married writer and editor Lori Marie Carlson.
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HM NumberHM1UVJ
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Year Placed2014
Placed ByHistoric Landmarks Preservation Center
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Date Added Friday, October 7th, 2016 at 1:01am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 587773 N 4517953
Decimal Degrees40.80790000, -73.95936667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 48.474', W 73° 57.562'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 48' 28.44" N, 73° 57' 33.72" W
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Area Code(s)646, 917, 212
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 421 W 118th St, New York NY 10027, US
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