Zorro Makes its Mark

For a guy who never existed, Zorro has had quite a year. April saw the publication of Zorro, the first serious fictional treatment of America’s first masked superhero, by the Peruvian born, Chilean raised and now California resident Isabel Allende. Allende’s novel is a landmark; Diego de la Vega, after more than 80 years, finally has an origin and a background. (Allende has given him not only noble Spanish blood but a mother who is a full-blooded Indian.) In May, the artist-writer team