Zorro is a 2005 mock biography

Biography

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 and the first origin story

Origin story

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 of the pulp hero Zorro

Zorro

Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York-based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media....

, written by Chile

Chile

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an author Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...

. It is a prequel

Prequel

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 to the events of the original Zorro story, Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro...

's 1919 novella The Curse of Capistrano

The Curse of Capistrano

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californio character Zorro...

. It also contains numerous references to earlier Zorro-related works, especially the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro

The Mask of Zorro

The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 American swashbuckler film based on the Zorro character created by Johnston McCulley. It was directed by Martin Campbell and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stuart Wilson...

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Allende's story is split into six parts, each part dealing with one stage of Diego's life, with the last part serving as the epilogue.