The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist and essayist                          

Selected Works:

Disillusionment - Enttäuschung - 1896
Little Herr Friedemann - "Der kleine Herr Friedemann" - 1897 -collection of short stories
The Clown - Der Bajazzo - 1897 - short story
The Dilettante - 1897
Tobias Mindernickel - 1897
Little Lizzy - 1897
The Wardrobe - Der Kleiderschrank - 1899
The Road to the Churchyard - Der Weg zum Friedhof - 1900
Buddenbrooks - Buddenbrooks - Verfall einer Familie - 1901 - novel
Gladius Dei - 1902
The Hungry - 1902
Tristan novella - 1903
Tonio Kröger novella - 1903
The Infant Prodigy - Das Wunderkind - 1903
Fiorenza play - 1904
A Gleam - 1904
At the Prophet's - 1904
A Weary Hour - The Blood of the Walsungs - Wälsungenblut - 1905 - novella
Railway Accident - 1907
Anekdote - 1908
Royal Highness - Königliche Hoheit - 1909 - novel
The Fight between Jappe and the Do Escobar - 1911
Felix Krull - Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull - 1911 - short story published in 1922
Death in Venice - Der Tod in Venedig - 1912 - novella
Frederick and the Great Coalition - Friedrich und die große Koalition - 1915
Reflections of an Unpolitical Man - Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen - 1918 - essay
A Man and His Dog - Herr und Hund; Gesang vom Kindchen: Zwei Idyllen - 1918 - novella
The Blood of the Walsungs - Wälsungenblut - 1921 - novella
The German Republic - Von deutscher Republik - 1922
The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - 1924 - novel
Disorder and Early Sorrow - Unordnung und frühes Leid - 1925
Mario and the Magician - Mario und der Zauberer - 1929 - novella
A Sketch of My Life - Lebensabriß - 1930

Joseph and His Brothers - Joseph und seine Brüder - 1933-43 -Tetralogy:

The Tales of Jacob - Die Geschichten Jaakobs - 1933
The Young Joseph - Der junge Joseph - 1934
Joseph in Egypt - Joseph in Ägypten - 1936
Joseph the Provider - Joseph der Ernährer - 1943

The Problem of Freedom - Das Problem der Freiheit - 1937
This Peace - Dieser Friede - 1938
The Coming Victory of Democracy - 1938 
Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns novel - 1939
The Transposed Heads - Die vertauschten Köpfe - Eine indische Legende - 1940 - novella
Listen Germany! - Deutsche Hörer! - 1943
Mose a commissioned novella - Das Gesetz Erzählung Auftragswerk - 1944
Doctor Faustus - Doktor Faustus - 1947 - novel

Essays of Three Decades - 1947 - translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter - Reprinted as Vintage book K55 - 1957

The Holy Sinner - Der Erwählte - 1951 - novel
The Black Swan - Die Betrogene: Erzählung - 1954

Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man: The Early Years -1954 Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren erster Teil - 
novel expanding upon the 1911 short story, unfinished.                          

Mother Júlia da Silva Bruhns
Father Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann
Wife Katia Pringsheim, six children, Erika, Klaus, Angelus Gottfried Thomas "Golo", Monika Mann, Elisabeth and Michael.                          

 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature - 1929