This is an intimate interview/biography of passionate contemporary Latin American author Allende, who became a novelist when she transformed a letter she had written to her dying 99-year-old grandfather into the manuscript for her first novel, La casa de los espiritus (The House of Spirits). This powerful book led Argentine-born biographer Celia Correas Zapata to invite Allende to speak at the university, a meeting that inspired a friendship between the two women. Here, Correas Zapata captures the life, spirit and literature of Allende through a series of interviews with the author. Correas Zapata also shares information she has gathered from Allende's family and acquaintances in Chile and includes a chronology through 1998, although the biography itself provides information on publications through 2000. There has yet to be a standard biography of Allende, whose life story is still being lived, but this intimate look joins other critical works about her writing and another less contextualized and personal collection of interviews, Conversations with Isabel Allende, to form the basis of knowledge about this important contemporary writer. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Prologue: A Few Words by Way of Explanation
Introduction
The Beginnings
Once Upon a Time
Good and Bad Fortune
Travels
Humor
Rebellions and Challenges
The House of the Spirits
A Chosen Destiny
Of Love and Shadows
Eva Luna
The Stories of Eva Luna
The Infinite Plan
Paula
Of Children and Books
Aphrodite
For Love
Muses, Angels, and Demons
Writing for the World
Success
Today
Writing
Daughter of Fortune
Portrait in Sepia
Chronology
Notes
Footnote

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