Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru, in 1942, the goddaughter of Chilean president Salvador Allende. Raised in Chile, she worked as a journalist and television personality before the 1973 military coup forced her family into exile. Living in Venezuela, she began writing The House of the Spirits as a letter to her dying grandfather, and the novel was published in 1982 to immediate international acclaim, establishing her as one of the foremost voices in Latin American literature. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The House of the Spirits.