![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In exile in Venezuela, before moving to California in 1988, Allende continued to work as a journalist. In the mid-1960s, the young mother of two became a journalist for a new feminist magazine challenging views on everything from virginity to abortion in a highly Catholic and patriarchal society-Allende’s column, a regular assault on machismo, was called “Civilize Your Troglodyte.” Within a decade, she had to flee Chile for her life when a CIA-backed coup overthrew the government headed by her father’s cousin, Salvador Allende, in 1973. It was no different in the years in between. At 74, declaring “I have no time to waste,” the writer entered into her third marriage, with a man she had just met. At six, a self-described “feminist in kindergarten,” Allende was expelled from school for insubordination-her rebelliousness rooted in observing how much more privileged her brothers already were. ![]() By the time she was three years old, she, her two brothers and her mother were living in her grandparents’ home in Santiago, Chile, after her father abandoned the family. Born in 1942 in Peru, where her father was serving as a Chilean diplomat, Allende embarked early on a life that has never stopped being tumultuous. Isabel Allende is probably the world’s most famous Latina author, and certainly the best-known among English-language readers. ![]()
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