Between 1974 and 1976, while working on the book to have or to be? At his home in locarno, switzerland, the aged Erich Fromm wrote far more manuscript and chapters than were actually used in the book, which was published...Between 1974 and 1976, while working on the book to have or to be? At his home in locarno, switzerland, the aged Erich Fromm wrote far more manuscript and chapters than were actually used in the book, which was published in 1976.