Chilean author Isabel Allende was born into a family of diplomats, and her father was Chile's ambassador to Peru.

As a result, she grew up and studied in countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Lebanon, and Chile, receiving high-quality private education in American schools.

Initially settled in Santiago, Chile, Allende worked as a journalist for children's and women's magazines; later, she worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which led her to spend long periods in Europe. In the 1960s, she married Miguel Frías, with whom she had two children: a daughter named Paula—whose death inspired her most sentimental and personal work, Paula—and a son, Nicolás. After the coup d'état in Chile in the early 1970s, Allende went into exile first to Venezuela, where she worked for the Caracas newspaper El Nacional and published her first work, La casa de los espíritus, and later to the United States, where she resides with her second husband.

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