In March 1938, novelist and author Thomas Mann — exiled from his home country Germany — visited Northwestern as the first stop of a nationwide lecture tour about the dangers of fascism, calling for ...

For 10 years between 1942 and 1952, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, lived in a Pacific Palisades home that he had built while he and his family were exiled from their native ...

Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven years at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, instead of the three ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) signs the Golden Book of the Hanseatic City of Luebeck before a ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann.

One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize. By Celia McGee Among the ...