Editing Thomas Mann (section)

==Career==
[[File:Thomas Mann early.jpg|thumb|Mann in the early period of his writing career]]
[[File:Mann, Thomas – Buddenbrooks, 1909 – BEIC 3277013.jpg|thumb|''Buddenbrooks'' (1909)]]
[[Blanche Knopf]] of [[Alfred A. Knopf]] publishing house was introduced to Mann by [[H. L. Mencken|H.L. Mencken]] while on a book-buying trip to Europe.<ref name="Claridge-2016">{{Cite book|title=The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire|last=Claridge|first=Laura|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2016|isbn=978-0-374-11425-1|edition= 1st |location=New York|pages=70–71|oclc=908176194}}</ref> Knopf became Mann's American publisher, and Blanche hired scholar [[Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter]] to translate Mann's books in 1924.<ref>Horton, David (2013), ''Thomas Mann in English. A Study in Literary Translation'', London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury. {{ISBN|978-1-4411-6798-9}}</ref> Lowe-Porter subsequently translated Mann's complete works.<ref name="Claridge-2016" /> Blanche Knopf continued to look after Mann. After ''Buddenbrooks'' proved successful in its first year, the Knopfs sent him an unexpected bonus. Later in the 1930s, Blanche helped arrange for Mann and his family to emigrate to America.<ref name="Claridge-2016" />

===Nobel Prize in Literature===
Mann was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1929, after he had been nominated by [[Anders Österling]], member of the [[Swedish Academy]], principally in recognition of his popular achievements with ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901), ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'' (''Der Zauberberg'', 1924), and his numerous short stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=7347|title=Nomination Database|date=April 2020|publisher=nobelprize.org|access-date=14 June 2017|archive-date=19 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219131319/http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=7347|url-status=live}}</ref> (Due to the personal taste of an influential committee member, only'' Buddenbrooks'' was cited at any great length.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/index.html|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929|website=The Nobel Prize|access-date=11 November 2007|archive-date=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226103331/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1929/summary/|url-status=live}}</ref> Based on Mann's own family, ''Buddenbrooks'' relates the decline of a merchant family in Lübeck over the course of four generations. ''The Magic Mountain'' (''Der Zauberberg'', 1924) follows an engineering student who, planning to visit his [[tuberculosis|tubercular]] cousin at a Swiss [[sanatorium]] for only three weeks, finds his departure from the sanatorium delayed. During that time, he confronts medicine and the way it looks at the body and encounters a variety of characters, who play out ideological conflicts and discontents of contemporary European civilization. The tetralogy ''Joseph and His Brothers'' is an epic novel written over a period of sixteen years and is one of the largest and most significant works in Mann's oeuvre. Later novels included ''[[Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns|Lotte in Weimar]]'' (1939), in which Mann returned to the world of Goethe's novel ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' (1774); ''[[Doctor Faustus (novel)|Doctor Faustus]]'' (1947), the story of the fictitious composer Adrian Leverkühn and the corruption of [[Culture of Germany|German culture]] in the years before and during World War II; and ''[[Confessions of Felix Krull]]'' (''Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull'', 1954), which was unfinished at Mann's death. These later works prompted two members of the [[Swedish Academy]] to nominate Mann for the Nobel Prize in Literature a second time, in 1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=5871|title=Thomas Mann Nomination archive|date=April 2020|publisher=nobelprize.org|access-date=16 June 2021|archive-date=30 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630160818/https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=5871|url-status=live}}</ref>