![]() ![]() The result is a book rich with historical detail. She threw herself into the project, researching the period, traveling to all of the novel's locations, and even taking fencing lessons. ![]() However, when the owners of the character's copyright approached her with the idea of writing a novel about him, she was almost insulted: she remembered thinking, I am a serious writer, I don't write on commission." But the idea of inventing Zorro's youth-telling the tale of what turned him into a masked hero-captured Allende's imagination. ![]() She enjoyed watching modern film versions of his story with her grandchildren and, in the interview "Loving Zorro, Writing Zorro, admitted, As a young woman I was in love with Zorro. She was indeed interested in the legendary character. The Chilean American novelist Isabel Allende almost refused to write her 2005 novel Zorro. ![]()
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