These strident views were often reflected in his work. Early rise to literary prominence Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Lübeck, northern Germany, to a merchant family. He was raised with four ...

Thomas Mann and James Joyce never met in life but, especially in death, found much in common. ... Germany is celebrating Thomas Mann’s 150th birthday in a state of nervous jubilation.

The Thomas Mann House, which is now a museum, survived the Palisades fire but remains closed because of smoke damage. Mann was a German Nobel laureate who fled Nazi Germany.

Feuchtwanger is not as well-known in the U.S. as Mann, Gordon said, but he is seen as an important figure in Germany, especially for so openly and brilliantly opposing the Nazis as a Jewish man.