Sunday Routine | Isabel Allende: Nurturing Her Family and Her Tribe
Isabel Allende always begins writing a new book on Jan. 8, a tradition that began in 1981 with a letter she wrote to her dying grandfather that would become the groundwork for her first novel, “The House of Spirits.”
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Sunday, 11 April, 2010
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