Thomas Mann: A Biography

New York: Scribner; Simon & Schuster, 1995. 672 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled. First printing. Dust jacket with light edgewear. "Thomas Mann is a literary biography in the grand tradition by the acclaimed biographer of Proust, Sartre, and Kafka. Ronald Hayman offers the first complete portrait in English of the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, and the first to draw on Mann's unexpurgated diaries. Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, and Joseph and His Brothers, was a man with secrets. Ronald Hayman uncovers a brilliant writer's masks and brings to the fore the private man: his bisexuality, his obsession with 'keeping up appearances,' and the deep guilt feelings that plagued him for nearly fifty years." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.