![]() Isabel grew up in a house on West 11th Street in New York that used to belong to Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial. ![]() Her maternal grandfather was Jacob Kaplan, the former owner of Welch's grape juice. Her siblings include Caio Fonseca, a much admired painter whose works hang in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of Art Bruno Fonseca, a painter who died of AIDS in 1994 and Quina Fonseca, a designer of clothes, costumes, and hats. Isabel Fonseca was born in New York in 1961 and is the youngest of four children born to Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and American painter Elizabeth Fonseca. She is best known for her books Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey and Attachment. ![]() Isabel Fonseca (born 1961) is an American-Uruguayan writer. ![]()
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