Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

Isabel Allende was worried that I’d be disappointed. “I don’t collect anything,” she told me when we met in the elegant sitting room in her Sausalito, California, office last month.

Isabel Allende has sold 80 million books which have been translated into 42 languages (Photo: Lori Barra) The paternal dynamics of Allende’s family are threaded through My Name is Emilia Del Valle.

Isabel Allende served as a parliamentarian for 31 years, first as a deputy (1994–2010) and then as a senator (2010–2025), reportedly raking in some US$ 3 million in wages.

While crafting her latest novel, Isabel Allende says she wanted to tell the story of the Chilean Civil War of 1891 from the perspective of a neutral party. She decided to make her protagonist a ...

Author Isabel Allende talks about her new book, "My Name is Emilia Del Valle," a historical romance set in the late 1800s about a young female journalist who goes to Chile to cover a brewing civil ...

Isabel Allende has a new novel and a message: Don’t give up While promoting her latest book, 'My Name Is Emilia del Valle,' the celebrated author discusses independence for women, censorship and ...

Isabel Allende’s new novel sends an adventurous reporter to war “My Name Is Emilia del Valle” takes place during Chile’s 1891 civil war, as an American journalist finds her life in peril.

Incredibly, only five of the fifteen recommended titles, which included a nonexistent climate change novel by Isabel Allende and a futuristic update of N. Richard Nash’’s classic playThe ...

Isabel Allende's latest, plus 'Foreign Fruit' and a Josephine Baker history My Name Is Emilia Del Valle is the newest novel from the prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s.

Isabel Allende was worried that I’d be disappointed. “I don’t collect anything,” she told me when we met in the elegant sitting room in her Sausalito, California, office last month.

Isabel Allende has been a literary legend for more than four decades. The novelist made a living with words before she turned her attention to fiction. Allende worked as a journalist in Chile ...