Isabel Allende Audio & Video

Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.

Three writers explore their lives, their loves, and their art in this live recording from the Quest...

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende for a reading of her latest novel, Ripper.

Just as the style of a great writer cannot easily be imitated, the performance of a great reader is hard...

While his mother struggles against cancer, 15-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a magazine reporter, and a team of archaeologists to the Amazon to find the legendary Yeti of the Amazon.

Isabel Allende's new novel is a thriller called Ripper. Her fiction "confounds expectations," wrote the Times Literary Supplement.

Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's foremost female writers. The author of nineteen books, her works have been adapted for movies, plays, musicals, operas, ballets, radio programs and two international movies.

In "My Invented Country, " Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit…

In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul in a book that is as exuberant and full of life as its creator.

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Allende's latest novel introduces yet another unforgettable woman--a slave and concubine determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.