Life before and life after the 1973 military coup in Chile marks the clear division in Isabel Allende's life. Allende is a world-renowned Latin American writer, known for the passion and eloquence of the folk tales with which she shares her country with the world. He uses the power of words as a tool to express his pain, his anger and his love. Isabelle Allende was born in Lima, Peru, on August 2, 1942. Her father, Tomas Allende, was a Chilean ambassador to Peru and cousin of Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically elected socialist candidate. His mother was Francisca Llona, ​​daughter of Isabel Barros Moreira and Augustin Llona Cuevas. Allende spent his early childhood in Peru and did not see Chile, his homeland, until he was four. His father had abandoned the family and his mother was forced to return to Chile with her three children. They lived in their maternal grandparents' home in Santiago, Chile. Because divorce was illegal in Chile at the time, Allende's mother obtained legal separation only after Allende's grandfather used his political status. Allende's mother married a man named Ramón Huidobro, also a diplomat, but was never able to legalize the union due to her previous marriage. He spent much of his childhood in Bolivia and Lebanon. Isabel Allende only developed her love for Chile during her adolescence. She was sent back to Chile in 1958, when she was 16, due to the civil war that broke out in Beirut and the conflict over the Suez Canal. Upon his return to Chile, he once again lived with his maternal grandparents. Her grandfather took Isabel on all his travels through Chile and greatly expanded her love and knowledge of the country. It influenced her profoundly. In 1962 Allende married Miguel Frias, an engineering student she had met during preparatory school. In her own words, she "served as his geisha." She gave birth to their first daughter, Paula, in 1963. Influenced by her grandfather who told her, "He who pays the bills, rules the house," Allende began working as a journalist in 1964. "Until recently, I didn't I had faith in men," she says. "I thought they weren't reliable; if you wanted to do something you had to do it yourself, even raise your children. I never let anyone else pay the bills because I understood that financial independence did the rest; I started working early and I've worked all my life.