Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer whose novels often weave myth and realism together, drawing on her own experience and on historical events. She is best known for The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, and she has also written Eva Luna, Of Love and Shadows, and A Long Petal of the Sea. Born in Lima, Peru, she was granted United States citizenship in 1993 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.