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Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955) was a German writer and Nobel laureate.
Mann was born in Lübeck. He lived in Munich, from 1891 until 1933. He emigrated from Nazi Germany to Küsnacht near Zürich, Switzerland in 1933, then in 1942 to Pacific Palisades, California, USA, returned to Europe in 1952, and lived in Kilchberg near Zürich where he died in 1955.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
He was the younger brother of Heinrich Mann.
He was the father of Klaus, Erika, Golo (Angelus Gottfried Thomas), Monika, Elisabeth and Michael Mann.
Gay themes are prominent in Mann's writings, especially Death in Venice. Mann's diaries, unsealed in 1975, speak movingly of his own struggles with his homosexual desires, which found reflection in his works. Mann described his feelings for young violinist and painter Paul Ehrenberg the "central experience of my heart". Mann was married to Katharina (Katia) Pringsheim for fifty years and had six children.
Works
See also Western canon.
Thomas Mann is also a scholar, author, and pundit who works at the Brookings Institution. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, especially campaign finance reform. In The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment, Darrell West calls Mann "The King of the pundits", for his numerous appearances on CNN and in prominent newspapers such as the Washington Post.
