Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, (1875-1955). German novelist. After a reluctant and unsuccessful attempt at a business career, he studied at Munich. Buddenbrooks (1900), an epic family saga set in his native Lubeck, brought him fame, and was followed by such successes as Death in Venice (1912) and The Magic Mountain (1924). Having been deprived of German citizenship in 1936 after an attack on the Nazi regime, he emigrated to the US in 1938. His last novels include the tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers (1933-43), Doktor Faustus (1947), and the unfinished Confessions of Felix Krull (1955). He spent his last years in Switzerland. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1929.
