Natalie Lawrence is an author, freelance writer, Illustrator, and historian of science whose work has appeared in "BBC Wildlife" and "Public Domain Review,"
Natalie , I wanted to see if you had anything else, any points to add there.
Natalie , please.
Natalie and RJ invited me over.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: I am Natalie Nuñez.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --brilliant.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Aw, thank you.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --Latin America, and women all over the world in that.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So I think I would like to start from the beginning, from how you became the person you became.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So knowing now the reach that that book has had, would you have done anything differently?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Do you think that the Spanish language has morphed the way that you think, in terms of femininity
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And you've been called "the most widely-read Spanish language author."
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And out of all these authors, like José Donoso and García Márquez, was there any on author that influenced, and that you looked up to?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yes.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Your writing was definitely influential to many other authors after this post-- What they say is that, because my book was
NATALIE NUÑEZ: It's wonderful.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: I do not.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So including these diverse characters-- Of course.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --there is a part of magic to it.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Magic to me?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yeah, it's interesting.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Oh, that's true.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So I'm curious, because you've had a lot of impact in not just Latino literature-- global literature, in representing the Latino culture and Chilean culture
NATALIE NUÑEZ: The winners.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yeah, that's interesting to hear-- letters, the stories-- The stories.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Interesting.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And do these stories impact your stories?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Your latest book?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And in sharing the stories of other people-- and you have memoirs of your own life, "Paula," and a recent one.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So you have your family here-- your son.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: You can adopt me.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And so like you're saying, a lot of us have immigrated over, and it's been the Bureau of just recently
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yes.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yeah.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: It is diversity.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Have you ever Googled yourself?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Interesting.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Wow, so Google has a big power.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, thank you so much.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --the floor to questions from the audience.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: It's always interesting, and sometimes flattering-- I'm sure, with you, often.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, sometimes I am asked to speak to Latino youth, mostly, who have either come recently,
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So I do have one last question.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, we're very, really excited-- I'm excited, too.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: But does it help, that feeling?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, we're very excited.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: I think we're in the same boat here at Google.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: That's always-- that's comforting.
Natalie is an entrepreneur from New Zealand.
Natalie is a sociologist and researcher in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.