Thomas mann author biography worksheet

Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize for literature in , and was the single most important prose writer of twentieth century Germany.

Mann was born on July 6, to an upper middle class family in the seaport of Luebeck, Germany. After his father's premature death in , the family fortune took a downturn, and they moved to Munich. When he graduated high school, Mann took a job as an insurance agent, but quickly grew to understand that literature was his passion.

Thomas mann author biography worksheet pdf

In Munich, Mann grew close to his mother, who was of Brazilian extraction, and she introduced him to a circle of intellectuals in the city. Mann moved to Italy in with his brother, Heinrich, to begin work on his first novel, Buddenbrooks.

The publication of Buddenbrooks, which traced the lives of a merchant family through several generations, made Mann rich and famous almost overnight.

His only stab at drama, a prose piece called Fiorenza, met with