Las Primeras: Latinas Who Made History by Daring to Be the First

After publishing more than 25 books — all of them written in Spanish and then translated to more than 35 languages — the Chilean writer was the first-ever Spanish-language author to receive the National Book Foundation's Medal Dor Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The House of the Spirits author is back in the news because of HBO's new show based on her life, Isabel, and the publication of her new feminist memoir, Mujeres del Alma Mia.