Cuban-born novelist, author of “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” collapses on tennis court on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 62.

“Born in New York in 1951 to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos specialised in writing about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture. He launched his career in 1983 with his first novel, Our House in the Last World, which documents the trials and tribulations of a family moving from Havana in 1939 to Spanish Harlem. He was best-known for his second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, about Cesar and Nestor Castillo, a pair of Cuban-born musician brothers that emigrate to the Big Apple in the 50s and achieve fifteen minutes of fame after appearing on the television sitcom, I Love Lucy. The book earned Hijuelos the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1990 and was later adapted for the big screen”. Read more here.