Paul Thomas Mann ( 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955 ) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length...
Thomas Mann is one of the most celebrated German writers in history, and he owes part of this fame to the United States, where he held citizenship when he died in 1955 at the age of eighty. In 1929 he received the Nobel Prize in literature. Until then,...
Thomas Mann is one of the most celebrated German writers in history, and he experienced this phenomenal acclaim within his own lifetime. In 1938, the year he left Europe for exile in the United States, Mann was sixty-three years old, with seventeen...
The German novelist and essayist Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was perhaps the most influential and representative German author of his time. Born in the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck on the Baltic Sea, the second son of a north German patrician...
Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length...
Mundt, Hannelore. Understanding Thomas Mann. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.272 pp. 139.95 hardcover. Hannelore Mundt's study of Thomas Mann is part of a series issued by the University of South Carolina Press on modern European and Latin American writers. The...
Was there ever a great writer whose relationship to his own country was as anguished as that of Thomas Mann with Germany? Dante, perhaps, who can be said to have made Italy, and who certainly made the Italian language. But Dante did not suffer...
Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the early polls may not be that reassuring if history is any guide. Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani, however, is sitting pretty.For at least three decades, Republicans have been far better than Democrats in early polls at getting behind the candidates...
Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, poised to sign a bill making New Mexico the 12th state to legalize medical marijuana, said Thursday he realizes his action could become an issue in the presidential race."So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do," said Richardson,...
In the following excerpt, Krispyn analyzes the political and social climate of Germany in 1935-36, commenting on why such writers as Thomas Mann and Arthur Koestler chose to continue writing in exile.
