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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende. By: Trisha Winters. 1942. Isabel was born on August 2 nd in Lima, Peru. She lived with her grandparents after her parents Tomás (Chilean government representative) and Francisca Allende divorced when she was two years old.

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Isabel Allende

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  1. Isabel Allende By: Trisha Winters

  2. 1942 • Isabel was born on August 2nd in Lima, Peru. • She lived with her grandparents after her parents Tomás (Chilean government representative) and Francisca Allende divorced when she was two years old. • Her grandmother was a great storyteller and they both left a noticeable imprint on her imagination, development, and future writing. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  3. This is a cathedral in Lima, Peru, Allende’s birth place.

  4. 1962 • Isabel marries her first husband, Miguel Frias, and has two children, Paula and Nicolas. • She also worked for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in Santiago as a secretary at this time for a few years, and later became a journalist, editor, and advice columnist for the magazine Paula. • Additionally, she worked on newsreels and as a television interviewer. http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  5. Logo of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, a company in which Allende worked for a few years.

  6. 1973 • Isabel’s uncle, the Chilean president Salvador Allende, was assassinated as part of a military coup against socialist government. • She joined efforts of church sponsored groups in providing for the needy families. • She also helped many compatriots escape military persecution and violence, transporting them to safety. • When it was clear that she was being targeted and it was too dangerous to stay in Chile, she fled with her husband and two children to Venezuela in 1975. • It was these experiences that she incorporated into her first novel. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  7. This is Salvador Allende, Isabel’s uncle.

  8. 1982 • Isabel was nominated for the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award for her debut novel, La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits). • She became an international success after this debut novel, and has since published four novels, a collection of short stories, an autobiography, and a book of recipes and stories. • All of her books that have translated into different languages were best-sellers in the countries that they were sold in. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  9. The House of the Spirits, Allende’s first novel.

  10. 1984 • Allende wrote De amor y sombras (Of Love and Shadows). • This novel was based on the experiences she had during the military coup in Chile. • She writes in a new dimension than her other novel, writing from a journalistic tone. • http://www.isabelallende.com/interviews_articles.htm

  11. Allende’s second novel, Of Love and Shadows.

  12. 1988 • While Isabel was on a lecture tour in San Jose, California promoting Of Love and Shadows, she met a lawyer named William Gordon. • He admired her work and she fell in love with him. • They married in 1988 and have lived in Marin, California ever since. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  13. This is a picture of San Jose, California, where Allende met William Gordon.

  14. 1991 • Cuentos de Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva Luna) was written and published. • This was the sequel to her third novel Eva Luna, which was voted by Library Journal as One of the Year’s Best Books. • Both of these books received much praise. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  15. Isabel’s follow up novel to Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna.

  16. 1993 • Isabel wrote and published El Plan Infinito (The Infinite Plan). • It received much less praise than her other books. • It was also her first novel after moving to America. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  17. Allende’s first novel written in America, The Infinite Plan.

  18. 1995 • She wrote and published Paula. • It was based on the illness and death of her daughter in 1991. • Publishers Weekly said that only a writer as skilled and passionate as Allende could write about her tragedy and still please readers. • It was the first non fiction book written by Allende. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Allende-Isabel.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsabelAllende • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/isabel-allende/

  19. Allende’s first non-fiction novel, Paula.

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