Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American novelist, journalist, and teacher whose fiction often explores women’s lives, memory, family, and Latin American history. Her breakthrough novel, *The House of the Spirits* (1982), launched an internationally acclaimed body of work that includes *Of Love and Shadows*, *Eva Luna*, and *Paula*. Born in Lima to Chilean parents, Allende received Chile’s National Prize for Literature in 2010.