Isabel Allende

This live interview with Isabel Allende originally aired on April 30, 2013. An edited version was aired on July 5, 2013 as part of a special episode of the Brian Lehrer Show. 

In her latest novel, Maya's Notebook, acclaimed author Isabel Allende writes from the perspective of an American teenager sent to an island community near Chile. Allende talks about her contemporary character's identity, her own career, and why her work is so popular.

Today, no one would say that a woman can't be a writer. But when the Chilean-born novelist Isabel Allende was growing up, "writer" was not on the career menu. Kurt asks Allende about the path that led her to write fiction. Her newest novel, Island Beneath ...

Isabel Allende talks about her latest novel, Island Beneath the Sea. Spanning four decades, it tells the story of the intertwined lives of Tété, a slave born on the island of Saint-Domingue, and plantation manager Toulouse Valmorain.

Event: Isabel Allende will be reading and signing books
Monday, May ...

Event: Isabel Allende will be speaking and signing books
Monday, April 7 at 7 pm
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No one would say today that a woman can't be a writer. But when the Chilean-born novelist Isabel Allende was growing up, "writer" was not on the career menu. Kurt talks with Allende about how she became a novelist, and why she just can't write an erotic ...