Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955) was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Mann, who fled Germany at about the same time as Albert Einstein, spent five years in Switzerland before travelling to the United States to live in the same neighbourhood with Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey. In spite of difficult life without all his manuscripts and adjustment to a foreign culture, Mann continued his work as a writer and became the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. His most famous works include: "Buddenbrooks" (1900), "Death in Venice" (1912), "The Magic Mountain" (1924) and "Dr. Faustus" (1947).