His wife said Hijuelos collapsed while playing tennis in New York. He was 62.
The New York-born Hijuelos captured the Cuban immigrant experience in The Mambo Kings -- the story of two Cuban brothers who move to the United States and form a band.
They gain short-lived celebrity after appearing on the real-life television comedy I Love Lucy, starring Cuban-born entertainer Desi Arnaz.
The 1989 novel won Hijuelos a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was turned into a popular movie.
Hijuelos wrote several other novels and also his 2011 memoirs, Thoughts Without Cigarettes.
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