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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.” ...