Born in Lima, Peru, she had a job translating romance novels from Spanish to English, which she was fired from for making the heroines more intelligent and independent than the source suggested.
Born in Lima, Peru, she had a job translating romance novels from Spanish to English, which she was fired from for making the heroines more intelligent and independent than the source suggested. In 1994, she published Paula, a memoir written as a letter to her daughter who died two years earlier. Tragedy has served her art well as she started writing her best-known work while her grandfather was on his deathbed. Now an American citizen, she was exiled to Venezuela following the coup that overthrew her uncle. For 10 points, who is this author of The House of the Spirits?
Born in Lima, Peru, she had a job translating romance novels from Spanish to English, which she was fired from for making the heroines more intelligent and independent than the source suggested.
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