March 22

An Evening with Isabel Allende
Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, CA
7 p.m.
Tickets: $25

Isabel’s appearance coincides with the Long Beach Public Library Foundation’s choice of Zorro as its 2012 Long Beach Reads One Book selection. Click here for tickets and more information.

April 27

National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Award for Excellence
Washington, D.C.
6:30 p.m.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts honors Isabel with its Award for Excellence, which will be presented at the museum’s 25th anniversary gala, entitled Les Jardins de Bagatelle. The gala will coincide with the French exhibition Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. Click here for more information.