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 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 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 ...

Isabel Allende’s latest novel is “My Name Is Emilia del Valle.” ... “I want to tell this story from a neutral point of view. I don’t want it to be on either side of the conflict.” ...

transcript. Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

My Name Is Emilia Del Valle is the newest novel from the prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s. Plus, a personal history of the orange, a Josephine Baker history and having kids in the digital age.

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 been a literary legend for more than four decades. ... “I want to tell this story from a neutral point of view. I don’t want it to be on either side of the conflict.” ...