1. Timeline Project By Danielle Werner
Isabel Allende
Timeline Project
By Danielle Werner

2. 1942 Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru on August 2, 1942.
She is the daughter of Fransisca Llona Barros and Tomás Allende, who was the Chilean ambassador of Peru.

3. Lima, Peru
Lima, Peru is where Isabel Allende was born. It is the capital of Peru and is the largest city there. Allende lived here until she was 3, when her parents got divorced.

4. 1945
Isabel and her family moved to Santiago, Chile after her parents got divorced.
They lived there for 8 years.

5. Santiago, Chile
Isabel Allende moved to Chile from Peru. Santiago is the capital and largest city in Chile.

6. 1953 to 1958
Isabel’s mother remarried to Ramón Huidobro, who is a diplomat appointed to Bolivia and Beirut, Lebanon.
They moved to Bolivia, where she attended a North American private school.
When Isabel lived in Beirut, she went to an English private school.

7. Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut is a large city in Lebanon. It is the capital and has a population of over 2.1 million. It is located on a peninsula, next to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

8. 1969 to 1972
She worked for a children’s magazine called Mampato and later she became the Editor.
She published two children’s books: La Abuela Panchita and Lauchas y Lauchones.
Isabel worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13.
She got her first manuscript published, which were her satirical columns in book form.

9. The House of Spirits
The House of Spirits is Isabel Allende’s first book published. She wrote it when she heard about her grandfather dying. The story is about three generations of the Trueba family of Chile. It became an instant bestseller when published in 1982.

10. 1973 She helped her mother and stepfather barely escape assassination.
Then she began receiving death threats, so she fled to Venezuela, where she stayed for 13 years.
In Venezuela she was a columnist for Il Nacional, a big newspaper company.

11. El Nacional
El Nacional is a publishing company in Venezuela. It is under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, but mostly known as El Nacional newspaper.

12. 1978 to 1988
Allende began a temporary separation from her husband, Miguel Frías. She spent two months in Spain before she went back to him.
She met her second husband, Willie Gordon, while visiting California in He was an attorney.

13. San Jose, California
San Jose, California is where Isabel Allende and Willie Gordon met. She was on a lecture tour about her new book Of Love and Shadows. They married in 1988 and have lived in Marin, CA ever since. Willie Gordon, a lawyer, has always admired her work.

14. 1994
Isabel Allende was awarded the Gabriela Mistral Order of Merit. She is the first woman ever to receive this honor.
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15. Gabriel Mistral
Gabriel Mistral was a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist. Isabel Allende got the Gabriel Mistral Order of Merit in 1994.

16. 2003 Isabel Allende obtained the United States citizenship.
She moved to San Rafael, California. She still lives there today.
Her second husband, Willie Gordon, became a San Francisco lawyer an novelist.

17. San Rafael, California
San Rafael, CA is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of about 55,649. It has a Mediterranean Climate and is the seat of Marin County, CA.

18. 2006
Allende performed as one of the eight flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

19. 2006 Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics in 2006 were held in Torino, Italy. It is officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games. The Opening Ceremony was in the Stadio Olimpico. The official motto was “Passion lives here”.

20. The End
By Danielle Werner