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Biography
Allende was born in Lima, Peru, the daughter of Francisca Llona Barros and Tomás Allende, who was at the time the Chilean ambassador to Peru. Her father was a first cousin of SalvadorAllende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973; so Salvador is her first cousin once removed. Many sources cite Allende as being Salvador Allende's niece (without specifying that the relationship is thatTomas and Salvador are cousins) the confusion stems from Allende herself often referring to Salvador as her "'uncle" (tío) in her private life and public interviews. This is because in Spanish a "firstcousin once removed" is translated as "second degree uncle" (tío en segundo grado).
Isabel Allende at the Miami Book Fair International in 1990
In 1945, after Tomás had disappeared Isabel's motherrelocated with her three children to Santiago, Chile, where they lived until 1953. Between 1953 and 1958, Allende's mother married Ramón Huidobro and moved often. Huidobro was a diplomat appointed toBolivia and Beirut. In Bolivia, Allende attended a North American private school; and in Beirut, Lebanon she attended an English private school. The family returned to Chile in 1958. Allende was alsobriefly home-schooled. In her youth, she read widely, particularly the works of William Shakespeare.
In 1970 Salvador Allende appointed Huidobro as ambassador to Argentina.
While living in Chile,Allende finished her secondary studies and met engineering student Miguel Frías whom she married in 1962.  Reportedly, "Allende married early, into an Anglophile family and a kind of double life: athome she was the obedient wife and mother of two; in public she became, after a spell translating Barbara Cartland, a moderately well-known TV personality, a dramatist and a journalist on a feministmagazine."
From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Santiago, Chile, then in Brussels, Belgium, and elsewhere in Europe. For a brief while in...