Isabel Allende

 Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer known for her use of magical realism in novels. She is most famous for writing "The House of the Spirits" and "City of the Beasts." She was born in Lima, the capital of Peru in 1942. She is so special because she is considered one of the first successful female novelists of Latin America.  Her story helped empower other women to write and publish their work. When she was young, she worked as a journalist in Chile but then was forced to flee to Venezuela due to the assassination Salvador Allende, who is her second cousin and a socialist politician. Her first novel evolved from a letter she wrote to her sick grandfather and was titled "La Casa de Los Espirítus" (The House of Spirits). Throughout many of her novels like Eva Luna or El Plan Infinito, she overlaps realistic fiction with fantasy and magic. She analyzes the roles women play in Latin American society. She also earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. In my next post, I will analyze one of her novels in more depth and connect it to her morals as an empowered woman.