Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875–August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic,philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novelsand mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas ofGoethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.