Isabel Allende

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (b. August 2, 1942, Lima) is a Chilean‑American author whose magical‑realist novels—The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts, Paula—have sold over 80 million copies in 42 languages. Fleeing Chile after the 1973 coup, she’s won Chile’s National Literature Prize and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014).