Johanna Spyri

Johanna Heusser was born in 1827 in Hirzel, a village in the hills above Lake Zurich, Switzerland. Her father was a doctor who treated patients in the family home, and her mother wrote religious poems and hymns. In 1852 she married Johann Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer and editor who later became town clerk of Zurich, and they had one son. She began writing in her forties, at first stories for adults, and then books for children. Heidi was published in two parts in 1880 and 1881. It tells of an orphaned girl who is taken to live with her gruff grandfather in a hut high in the Alps, where she befriends the goatherd Peter and his blind grandmother; when she is sent to Frankfurt as a companion to a wealthy invalid girl, Clara, she becomes homesick for the mountains. Heidi became one of the best-known Swiss books in the world. In 1884 both her husband and son died. She wrote many more stories and died in Zurich in 1901.

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