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TOMI UNGERER, the writer and illustrator, is a household name in the German-speaking world, at least in that portion of it which rears 1.2 children. His passport, however, is French. He was born into a famous family of clockmakers ill 1931, and grew up in Logelbach, a suburb of Colmar, one of those idyllic medieval towns ill the Rhine Valley that seems to have done its best to shake off the march of progress (even though its most famous son, Bartholdi, designed the Statue of Liberty).
In 1956, aged twenty-five, Ungerer embarked on a ship for New York with $60 in his pocket; he is now rich and famous and lives in Ireland, where his own children went to school. He ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Growing up as a Welsh Alsatian. (History).(Tomi Ungerer)