Isabel Allende

Friday, January 01, 1982

Isabel Allende was born in Peru to Chilean parents in 1942. Due to political concerns, Allende and her family first moved to Venezuela in 1973 and then immigrated to the United States in 1987. Allende is a philanthropist, writer, and novelist whose works include The House of the Spirits (1982), Of Love and Shadows (1984), Paula (1994), City of the Beasts (2002), My Invented Country (2003), The Sum of Our Days (2007), A Long Petal of the Sea (2019), and The Soul of a Woman (2020). Allende has been recognized and received more than 35 literary awards in addition to receiving the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.