Author

Books by Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942 and grew up in Chile, where her cousin Salvador Allende was president until the 1973 coup. She went into exile in Venezuela and later settled in the United States. The House of the Spirits (1982) was her first novel, written initially as a letter to her dying grandfather and published to international acclaim. She has since written more than twenty novels, including Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and The Infinite Plan. She is one of the most widely read Spanish-language novelists in the world. The Isabel Allende Foundation supports the rights of women and girls.