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Archive: One City, One Book Author 
Occasionally, when an author visits our city, we will sponsor a series of programs around the works of the author to encourage community-wide interest and appreciation of the coming visit.
Isabel Allende will appear in Greensboro on November 13, 2007 at 7:30 pm. Her visit is sponsored by Guilford College's Bryan Series.
Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's most celebrated writers and the author of five international best-sellers, including The House of Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Paula, Zorro and Daughter of Fortune.
Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Chile, Allende is the niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende, who served as Chile's president until a bloody coup in 1973 took his life. Since then, Allende has written about the joy, beauty, pain, and sorrow of the human condition. Her memoir, My Invented Country, delves into the social mores and idiosyncrasies of Chile, and her most recent book, Ines of My Soul, is a historical novel about the conquest of Chile and a woman who built the city of Santiago with the help of her lover.
Allende created the Isabel Allende Foundation to support programs that promote and preserve the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected.
Learn more at her website.
Check the catalog for the availability of Allende's works.
Prepare for Allende's visit by participating in book discussions, films, readings, and more!
Book Discussions
Reader's Choice: All works will be discussed.
October 4, 7 pm at Central Library
The House of the Spirits
October 13, 3 pm at Hemphill Branch Library
Paula
October 22, noon at Benjamin Branch Library
The Infinite Plan
October 23, noon at Benjamin Branch Library
Zorro
October 24, 1:30 pm at Hemphill Branch Library
Zorro
October 25, 7 pm, at Hemphill Branch Library
Films
House of the Spirits starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep
October 13, 2 pm at Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library
The Mask of Zorro plus fencing demonstration
October 27, 2 pm at Central Library
Isabel Allende - The Woman's Voice in Latin American Literature plus discussion with Claudia Femenias
November 8, 7 pm at Hemphill Branch Library
More!
Monday Night Poetry - Odes to Broken Things: Celebrating Pablo Neruda with discussion led by Mark Smith-Soto
October 15, 7 pm at Central Library
Presentation on Isabel Allende, Magical Realism and Emerging Latino Writers with Claudia Femenias
October 20, 1:30 pm at Central Library
Allende Con Amor - Chilean wine tasting and reader's theater featuring passages of Allende's that focus on love.
November 16, 6 pm at Zeto's Wine, 335 Battleground Avenue
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