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\nby Logan Ramsay  \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT  \nSchool Publishers  \nPHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS:Cover PolFoto/Topham/The Image Works.Title page OPhotoDisc/CMCD,Inc.3 O IsabelAllende Archives,◎ Image Farm Inc.4 PhotoDisc/C Squared Studios.6 ◎SuperStock,Inc./SuperStock.9 O Bettmann/CORBIS.10 OHoracio Villalobos/CORBIS.13 O PhotoDisc/CMCD,Inc.14◎John Morrison/PhotoEdit.16 ◎PolFoto/lTopham/The Image Works.18 PhotoDisc/CMCD,Inc.  \nCopyright o by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic ormechanical,including photocopying or recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,without the priorwritten permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law.Requestsfor permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Miflin Harcourt School Publishers,Attn:Permissions,6277 Sea Harbor Drive,Orlando,Florida 32887-6777.  \nPrinted in China  \nISBN-13:978-0-547-01671-9  \nISBN-10:0-547-01671-9  \n23456780940181716151413121110  \n\n| If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers  \u003Cbr>retains title to the materials and they may not be resold.Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited.   |\n| --- |\n\n\n| Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication,or any portion of it,into  \u003Cbr>electronic format.   |\n| --- |\n\n# A Woman and Her Art\n\n“I have been an outsider nearly all my life,acircumstance I accept because I have no alternative.\"—Isabel Allende  \nIsabel Allende was born in 1942,in Peru.By the time shewas sixteen,she had lived in four different countries,with avariety of relatives.She was used to being the \"new girl,\"theforeigner at school,the one who didn't fit in.Abandonment,political turmoil,love,tragedy—these were all part of everydaylife during her childhood.With a background such as this,it isnot surprising that she felt like an outsider.She had no placewhere she could feel completely at home.  \nFor Allende,writing has always been a way to observe lifefrom the outside.She is most famous for her novels.These longworks of fiction are filled with colorful characters and events.The act of writing releases an avalanche of words from her pen.Allende says,“When I start,I am in a total limbo.I don't haveany idea where the story is going or what is going to happen orwhy I am writing it.\"As she writes,the characters tell her whothey are and what they are doing.Most of her main charactersare females who have great inner strength and spirit—muchlike the author who created them.  \n# An Unusual Childhood\n\nIsabel Allende suffered her first great loss early in life.Atthe time,she lived in Peru.Her father,Tomás Allende,was adiplomat there.A diplomat represents his or her government ina foreign country.Tomás Allende and his wife Francisca(calledPanchita)were from Chile.They moved to Peru so that Tomáscould work at the Chilean embassy there.Isabel’s parents'marriage had been troubled from the start.When Isabel wasfour,her father abandoned the family.  \nIn an instant,Isabel lost both a father and a country.Panchita and her three children got on a boat and sailed toChile.Isabel never saw or spoke to her father again.All tracesof him were erased from their lives—even his pictures wereburned.His disappearance affected Isabel deeply.To this day,  \nshe is unable to write about fathers.  \nPanchita took Isabel and her brothers to Santiago,Chile,to live at her parents'home.It was a largehouse,filled with dark rooms,heavy furni-ture,and unusual relatives.Isabel says thatliving with them gave her a lifetime'sworth of stories:“With relatives as weirdas mine there is no need to invent any-thing,they alone provide all thematerial.…”Isabel was born in Peru  \nIt was a strange 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