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Chilean novelist ISABEL ALLENDE (ah-YEN-day). She's one of the few females in the male-dominated world of Latin American novelists. She's the niece of Chile's ousted President Salvador Allende, who was pushed out during a 1973 coup and assassinated. ISABEL left Chile after the military coup and went to Venezuela. She moved to the U.S. five years ago after falling in love with an American, and now lives in California. Her new book, "The Infinite Plan," (HarperCollins) is the first time she's set a story in the U.S. about a white American family. ALLENDE is also the author of "The House of Spirits," "Of Love and Shadows," and other novels.

On April 10, 1995 KENNETH S. STERN, the American Jewish Committee's advisor on hate groups warned authorities that some kind of "incident" is likely to occur on April 19, 1995. The second anniversary of the Waco fire. He was proved right. A bomb destroyed the Federal building in Oklahoma City. The bombing raised the suspicion that the bombing suspect, Timothy McVeigh might have ties to a militia. Stern's has written, "A Force Upon The Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate" which has been published by Simon and Schuster. It is an attempt at providing a definitive history of the Militia Movement. Stern was Director of the National Organization Against Terrorism and is also the author of "Loud Hawk: The United States versus the American Indian Movement" and "Holocaust Denial." Stern lives with his family in New York City.

2: Author MICHAEL DORRIS. His work is wide-ranging in topic and emotional impact. In his earlier book "The Broken Cord" he wrote of his struggle to understand the severe health and behavior problems of an adopted son, Abel, who had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Abel, a Native American, died in an accident after a difficult life. DORRIS himself is part Modoc Indian. He founded the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College where he now teaches Anthropology. DORRIS'S new book is called "Paper Trail." It's a collection of some of his previously published writings. It includes essays on the problems facing Native Americans today, DORRIS'S own childhood, and his experiences as adoptive father of three children, all diagonosed with varying degrees of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Chilean novelist ISABEL ALLENDE (ah-YEN-day). She's one of the few females in the male-dominated world of Latin American novelists. She's the niece of Chile's ousted President Salvador Allende, who was pushed out during a 1973 coup and assassinated. ISABEL left Chile after the military coup and went to Venezuela. She moved to the U.S. five years ago after falling in love with an American, and now lives in California. Her new book, "The Infinite Plan," (HarperCollins) is the first time she's set a story in the U.S. about a white American family. ALLENDE is also the author of "The House of Spirits," "Of Love and Shadows," and other novels.

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