Isabel Allende’s Influences
Real Magic<p>The Chilean magical realism writer shares the books that have influenced her the most. Her new novel is <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mayas-Notebook-Novel-Isabel-Allende/dp/0062105620/" target="_blank">Maya’s Notebook</a></i>, out today.</p>
Isabel Allende’s Favorite Bookstore
Immigrant Song<p>The author of such novels as <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/House-Spirits-Novel-Isabel-Allende/dp/0553383809/">The House of Spirits</a></i>, <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Island-Beneath-Sea-Novel-P-S/dp/0061988251/">Island Beneath the Sea</a></i> and <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Fortune-Novel-Isabel-Allende/dp/B005Q5TVTK/">Daughter of Fortune</a></i> was born in Peru and grew up in Chile. But she found a perfect bookstore in California that has even nurtured her husband’s new writing career, as she writes in the new book <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Bookstore-Writers-Celebrate-Favorite/dp/1579129102/">My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop</a></i>, edited by Ronald Rice.</p>
A Baby, a Mystery, and a Mission
Defining MomentIsabel Allende describes a surreal experience in India that altered her life—and spurred her fight for women and girls.