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On the Trail of `Heidi'; Author Johanna Spyri's Home In the Hills of North Central Switzerland

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871101
Author:Linda McK. Stewart

Everyone knows "Heidi." The story of the plucky child of the Alpine meadows, her pipe-smoking, taciturn grandfather and her friend Peter the goatherd is famous the world over: It's estimated that 40 million copies of this much-beloved juvenile classic stand on bookshelves all around the world.

But details about the book's author, Johanna Spyri, remain curiously vague to the world at large. Even in her native Switzerland, Spyri is a relatively obscure person. Ask in Geneva, Zurich, Basel or Bern, "Where was Spyri born? Where did she live?" Chances are you'll be told, "I don't really know."

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