The legendary novelist Gabriel García Márquez has died at the age of 87. He is widely regarded as one the century’s greatest writers. In his home country of Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos has declared a day of mourning. García Márquez’s masterpiece, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” sold more than 50 million copies in 25 languages. In 1982, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.

Gabriel García Márquez: “Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”

We’ll spend the hour honoring Gabriel García Márquez in his own words and with the novelist Isabel Allende after headlines.