NY1: “Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Remembers His Roots” (Sobre Oscar Hijuelos)

Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American author and previous recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, has written about the struggles of his parents' generation in the past and recently wrote a memoir of his own life and hardships. NY1's Budd Mishkin filed the following "One On 1" report.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos will write notes to himself at any time on anything.
“Writing on the back of a notebook page, I mean, I guess I was pretty desperate,” says Hijuelos. “I'll write on anything."
Hijuelos is known for writing fiction. “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” the 1989 bestseller that earned him the Pulitzer Prize, was later made into a movie.