Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was born in a small town in Switzerland, but as a child she spent her summers in a village very much like Dörfli, the fictional setting of her book Heidi . After her marriage to a lawyer, she moved to the city of Zurich. Spyri wrote novels for both adults and children, but she is remembered most for Heidi and the book's depiction of rural life in the Swiss Alps during the nineteenth century.
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was born in a small town in Switzerland, but as a child she spent her summers in a village very much like Dörfli, the fictional setting of her book Heidi . After her marriage to a lawyer, she moved to the city of Zurich. Spyri wrote novels for both adults and children, but she is remembered most for Heidi and the book's depiction of rural life in the Swiss Alps during the nineteenth century. See less
