# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johanna-spyri
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:07:25.419Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 12 June 1827 in Hirzel, a rural pocket of canton Zürich, Johanna Heusser spent childhood summers near Chur in Graubünden — alpine valleys that would later furnish the landscape for her fiction. She became Johanna Spyri by marriage and turned to writing novels, including children's stories. Heidi arrived and stuck: the tale of the orphan girl in the mountains found an audience that never let go. She died 7 July 1901, leaving behind a book that outlasted its century.