Zorro (novel) la Vega and his mute brother Bernardo to create their eventual shared identity as el Zorro, advocate and protector of the people. Allende contributed an essay on the writing of the "Zorro" novel to "Tales of Zorro", the first-ever anthology of original Zorro short fiction edited by Richard Dean Starr and published by Chicago-based Moonstone Books. Zorro (novel) Zorro is a 2005 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. Its subject is the pulp hero Diego de la Vega, better known as El Zorro (The Fox), who was featured in an early 20th-century novel. The novel takes the form of a
Zorro However, Fairbanks's sequel, "Don Q, Son of Zorro" (1925), was more based on the 1919 novel "Don Q's Love Story" by the mother-son duo Kate Prichard and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard than "The Further Adventures". Thus McCulley received no credit on the film. At first, production of new Zorro stories proceeded at irregular intervals: the third novel, "Zorro Rides Again" (not to be confused with the 1937 theatrical serial) was published in 1931, nine years after the second one. Then, between 1932 and 1941, McCulley wrote four short stories and two serialized novels. Zorro stories were published much more frequently between 1944