RIP, Oscar Hijuelos

[TheSportsPredictor]

Pulitzer Prize winner collapsed and died while playing tennis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/books/oscar-hijuelos-cuban-american-writer-who-won-pulitzer-dies-at-62.html?_r=0

 

[britwrit]

So sad. "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" was one of those books that I read and reread in college.

Maybe one way we can honor him is to realize how transient the wonderful things in life are and treasure them while they last.