Male : Novelist. Left Germany 1933 for Switzerland, then moved to USA (became a US citizien in 1944) with his brother Heinrich. Nobel Prize 1929. Although probably homosexual in 1905 he married Katja Pringsheim. Two of his sisters and one of his sons committed suicide

Nationality : German Place of Birth : Lubeck

Date of Birth : 1875 Date of Death : 1955 Age : 80

1901-1920
Buddenbrooks : The Decline of a Family (1901) (1924 Martin Secker - 2 vols) (1924 Knopf NY - 2 vols)
Toni Kroger (1903)
Death in Venice & Other Stories (1912) (1925 Knopf) (1928 M Secker)
[Filmed in 1971]
Royal Highness (1916 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1916 Knopf)

1921-1930
Bashan and I (1923 Collins) (1923 Henry Holt)
The Magic Mountain (1924) (1927 Knopf - 2 vols) + signed Edition of 200
(1927 M Secker - 2 vols)
Children and Fools (1928 Knopf) - ss
Early Sorrow (1929 M Secker) (1930 Knopf)
Three Essays (1929 Knopf) (1932 M Secker)
A Sketch of My Life (1930 Harrison of Paris) - 695 numbered
(1960 Knopf) (1961 Secker & Warburg)
Mario and the Magician (1930 M Secker) (1931 Knopf)

1931-1940
A Christmas Poem (1932 Equinox Cooperative Press, NY) - Lynd Ward
Past Masters and Other Papers (1933 M Secker) (1933 Knopf)
The Tales of Jacob (1933 Fischer, Berlin) (1934 Knopf) (1934 M Secker)
Nocturnes (1934 Equinox Cooperative Press, NY) - 1000 signed. b/w lithos by Lynd Ward
The Young Joseph (1934 Fischer, Berlin) (1935 Knopf) (1935 M Secker)
Stories of Three Decades (1936 Knopf) (1936 Secker & Warburg)
Joseph in Egypt (1936 Bermann-Fischer, Vienna) (1938 Knopf) - 2 vols
(1938 Secker & Warburg) - 2 vols
An Exchange of Letters (1937 Friends of Europe) (1937 Knopf) (1938 Overbook Press, US - 350)
Freid, Goethe, Wagner (1937 Knopf)
The Coming Victory of Democracy (1938 S & W) (1938 Knopf)
This Peace (1938 Knopf)
The Beloved Returns (1940 Knopf) + signed Edition of 395
Lotte in Weimar (1940 Secker & Warburg) - [same as above title]
This War (1940 Knopf) (1940 Secker & Warburg)

1941-1950
The Transposed Heads and the Story of Sita (1941 Knopf) (1941 S & W)
Order of the Day (1942 Knopf) (1943 S & W)
Listen Germany ! (1943 Knopf)
Joseph the Provider (1943 Bermann-Fischer, Stockholm) (1944 Knopf) (1945 S & W)
The Tables of the Law (1945 Knopf) (1947 S & W)
Doctor Faustus (1947 Stockholm) (1948 Knopf) (1949 Secker & Warburg)
Essays of Three Decades (1947 Knopf) (1948 S & W)

After 1951
The Holy Sinner (1951 Knopf) (1952 Secker & Warburg)
The Black Swan (1953) (1954 Secker & Warburg) (1954 Knopf)
Confessions of the Swindler Felix Krull Confidence Man (1954) (1955 Knopf)
(1955 Secker & Warburg 18/-)
Last Essays (1959 Knopf) (1959 Secker)
Letters to Paul Amann (1960 Weslyan UP) (1961 Secker & Warburg)
The Genesis of a Novel - The Writings (1961 Knopf) (1961 Secker)
Mario and the Magician & Other Stories (1961 Secker & Warburg)
The Magic Mountain (1962 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Felix Hoffmann
The Letters of Thomas Mann 1889-1955 (1970 Secker & Warburg - 2 vols) (1971 Knopf - 2 vols)
Death in Venice (1972 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Felix Hoffmann
Diaries 1918-1939 (1983 Deutsch)

READING
Monica Mann : Past and Present - Reminsicences and Background of Thomas Mann (1960 US)
John C Thirlwall : In Another Language (1966 Knopf)
Richard Winston : Thomas Mann - The Making of an Artist (1982 Constable)
Donald Prater : Thomas Mann - A Life (1995 OUP £25)
Anthony Heilbut : Thomas Mann - Eros & Literature (1996 Macmillan £20)
Ronald Hayman : Thomas Mann - A Biography (1996 Bloomsbury £20)
Donald Prater : Thomas Mann - A Life (1996 OUP £20)
Herman Kurzke : Thomas Mann - Life as a Work of Art - A Biography (2003 Allen Lane £30)