Chilean novelist ISABEL ALLENDE (ah-YEN-day). She's one of the few females in the male-dominated world of Latin American novelists. She's the niece of Chile's ousted President Salvador Allende, who was pushed out during a 1973 coup and assassinated. ISABEL left Chile after the military coup and went to Venezuela. She moved to the U.S. five years ago after falling in love with an American, and now lives in California. Her new book, "The Infinite Plan," (HarperCollins) is the first time she's set a story in the U.S. about a white American family. ALLENDE is also the author of "The House of Spirits," "Of Love and Shadows," and other novels.
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