During this time, Allende also worked as an editor, a journalist, and even wrote and published two children’s stories. She worked for the United Nations in Chile and Europe until 1965 and translated English romance novels into Spanish on the side. Allende finished her schooling in Chile, where she met and married her first husband in 1962 and went on to have two children.
Allende’s mother remarried a Chilean diplomat, and the family traveled extensively, enrolling Allende in private schools in both Bolivia and Beirut, Lebanon.
Allende also had unlimited access to her grandmother’s rather large library, sparking a lifelong interest in reading, especially Shakespeare. Allende’s grandmother was interested in spiritualism, an influence that is seen in The House of the Spirits. In 1945, Allende’s parents divorced after her father left the family, and she moved to Santiago, Chile, with her mother and siblings and lived with her maternal grandparents. Isabel Allende Llona was born one of three children to Francisca Llona Barres and Tomás Allende, the second secretary at the Chilean embassy, in Lima, Peru.
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