“The task of a writer consists
of being able to make something out of an idea.” – Thomas Mann
Born in Lubeck, Germany on June 6,
1875 Mann was a journalist, novelist, short story writer, philanthropist and
essayist who started writing in the mid-1890s while living in
Munich. Winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature, he was
one of the most outspoken critics of Adolph Hitler, ultimately having to flee
to Czechoslovakia and then the United States where he became a naturalized
American citizen and lived until shortly before his death in 1955.
His successful creative writing
career, which began with his novel Buddonbrooks – about a
merchant family and reflective of his own childhood roots – was marked
primarily by his short stories, which were popular throughout his lifetime and
continue to be studied in writing classes today.
"In books we never find
anything but ourselves,” Mann said.
“Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and (yet) we say
the author is a genius."
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