DIED
Oscar Hijuelos, 62, American-born novelist of Cuban descent and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, in 1989, for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, which later became a film starring Antonio Banderas.
AWARDED
To Eleanor Catton, 28, Britain's Man Booker Prize, for her 832-page novel, The Luminaries. She is the youngest winner in the award's history.
WON
By the Minnesota Lynx, the team's second WNBA championship in three years. The Lynx went undefeated in the playoffs, and forward Maya Moore was named the Finals MVP.
DIED
Chuck Smith, 86, evangelical minister best known for cultivating...
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