Isabel Allende

Studio 360

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 the Sea, is out now.

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