Thomas Mann

Mann, Thomas (1875–1955), German writer, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for literature. He left Germany (1933), settled in the United States (1938), and became a U.S. citizen (1944). His works include Buddenbrooks (1901), his first novel, which brought him fame; Death in Venice (1912), addressing Mann's recurring themes of the relationship between art and neurosis and the challenge to the values of an artist in a bourgeois society; and The Magic Mountain (1924), his major work. He denounced fascism in The Order of the Day (1942), a political writing. His later works include Doctor Faustus (1947) and Confessions of Felix Krull (1954).