Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck, in northern Germany, into a wealthy merchant family; his father was a grain merchant and city senator. After his father's death the family firm was dissolved, and the family moved to Munich, where Thomas began writing. His first novel, Buddenbrooks (1901), traces the decline of a merchant family over four generations, much like his own. In 1905 he married Katia Pringsheim, and they had six children, several of whom also became writers. His novella Death in Venice appeared in 1912. The Magic Mountain (1924), set in a Swiss sanatorium before the First World War, explores ideas about time, illness and European society. In 1929 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he fled to Switzerland, and in 1939 he moved to the United States, teaching at Princeton and later living in Los Angeles. During the war he broadcast radio talks to Germany. His later novels include Joseph and His Brothers and Doctor Faustus. In 1952 he returned to Switzerland, where he died in 1955.

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Faith: Baptised Lutheran, his father's religion. Source: Wikipedia