Thomas Mann

1875–1955

14 standalone books

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, and essayist who won the 1929 Nobel Prize. He is known for his symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, which explore the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His work often analyzed the European and German soul, drawing on modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother, Heinrich Mann, was a radical writer, and three of his six children—Erika Mann, Klaus Mann, and Golo Mann—became important German writers. After Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. He later moved to the United States in 1939, following the outbreak of World War II, and returned to Switzerland in 1952. Mann is considered one of the most prominent figures of Exilliteratur.

Born

1875